Scientists sign statements and counter-statements on group immunity | Coronavirus

Supported by many citizens and scientists alike, the Great Barrington Declaration has been talking. This statement – which counts on mathematics Gabriela Gomes as one of the signatories – calls for an approach that achieves group immunity through natural infection, in which people at lower risk (such as healthy young people) must “live their lives normally” and risk groups must be protected. This week, a senior US government official even mentioned that this “strategy” supports what has been the policy followed by Donald Trump. Already a group of 80 scientists launches this Wednesday an open letter in the magazine The Lancet in which he warns that this way of achieving group immunity is a “dangerous fallacy”.

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