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by drak0n1c 1863 days ago
Bloomberg reported yesterday that Texas’ lifting of restrictions had no noticeable effect on the already plateauing case numbers.

Perhaps the herd immunity threshold does not require as high of a vaccination rate if enough people are immune from prior infection. Many people who were infected never took a test because of mild or no symptoms, so they don’t show up in statistics. Immunity from prior infection was recently shown to have the same efficacy as the best-in-class vaccines (95%).

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-17/texas-reo...