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Originally Posted by oneclickplus
Actually, no. That can also happen if enough people are exposed to the virus and their God-given immune systems respond and create and immunity.
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Let's see, if there have been at least as many asymptomatic cases as there have been confirmed cases (27M) that means about 54M people in the US have been infected so far.
If the current fatality rate among confirmed cases is 1.5% then that means the overall fatality rate including asymptomatic infections is about 0.75%.
If you need 80% of the population to be immune then with 300M people in the US that would be 240M infections.
At a fatality rate of 0.75%, 240M infections would lead to 1,800,000 deaths. Since we are close to 500,000 deaths today, that means
only 1,300,000 more people would be expected to die for enough people to be exposed to the virus and their God-given immune systems to respond and give immunity.
So, we can move forward with the vaccine or we can look forward to 1,300,000 more deaths: I know what my choice is.