Collective immunity to COVID-19 is likely to be formed in the United States due to the large number of coronavirus options and the high proportion of people who do not want to vaccinate. This is reported to the New York Times newspaper with reference to expert estimates.
So, according to the publication, about 30% of US residents do not consider vaccination with something necessary, while the formation of collective immunity requires the presence of antibodies to infection more than 80% of the population.
However, the newspaper notes, such data is relative, because the country is not isolated from the rest of the world, in connection with which it is worth talking not only to the immunite on the US, but in the whole world as a whole. It is also clarified that the average immunity of an American resident is also relative, because in one city there is a predominant majority of people having antibodies in coronavirus as a result of vaccination or developed after the disease, and in another city for any reason most residents refuse vaccination.
“Collective immunity only told people who began to assume that we would never win an infection, if we would not reach this mystical indicator, so we refused to use this term in the classical sense and simply say: if vaccinating enough people, we will defeat the infection “- Quotes The New York Times of the director of the National Institute of Allergic and Infectious Diseases of the US Anthony Faucci.