Opening the floodgates for Covid-19 may make sense for poor countries
Ultimate herd immunity, at the cost of a higher death rate, may prevent economic devastation, experts argue
22 April 2020 - 09:40
Mumbai — Controversial given the high risk of deaths, a coronavirus strategy discarded by governments such as the UK and SA is being touted as the solution for poor but young countries such as India.
Herd immunity, which allows a majority of the population to gain resistance to the virus by becoming infected and then recovering, could result in less economic devastation and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop its spread, a number of experts have begun to argue in the nation of 1.3-billion people...
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