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Originally Posted by charmed59
I see in Sumter county the percent of seniors vaccinated for COVID is leveling out at just over 60%. If we need 75% to hit herd immunity we’d need over 90% of those under 65 to be vaccinated, which seems unlikely.
Is there some number of seniors that intend to get vaccinated but haven’t yet? If so, what are they waiting for? I’m hopeful seeing the Villages Health is now inoculating their members.
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So much of the information we have is guesses. What is herd immunity? It is a concept and it is not 100%. If, 75% is the number there are roughly 350 million people in the US
side stepping illegal aliens, which that count is also an unconfirmed guess. Thus, 75% of 350 million is 263 million people. The two top suppliers Moderna and Pfizer are two shots so 263x2=525 million shots.
All we can do is the best we can. So far what has been done while not perfect is truly impressive.
It has been done without resorting to forcing people to take a vaccine as was done with polio and small pox shots.