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by IgorBog61650384 1959 days ago
People need to understand that stopping Covid will take much more then a year, and can easily extend for 2-3 years. 24% of the USA population is under 18 (from google). The article states that at least 75% of the population must be vaccinated, which means that he expects 100% vaccination of the rest of the population, which is impossible due to medical reasons, and in the USA with its large communities of anti-vaxxers even more complicated. To achieve herd immunity we need to slowly lower the lower age limit for vaccinations, and adjust the ways schools operate - for example mandatory temperature measurments and rapid 10-min covid tests for the kids before they can enter the school buildings. People trying to sell everything will be back to normal by summer might in the end cause more harm then good by creating false hopes for fast fixes.