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Coronavirus: First city in the world apparently achieves herd immunity - in cruel ways

2020-09-26T12:38:37.995Z


According to an evaluation by researchers, herd immunity should have occurred in a city. 66.1 percent of people were infected with the corona virus.


According to an evaluation by researchers, herd immunity should have occurred in a city.

66.1 percent of people were infected with the corona virus.

  • According to researchers, the Brazilian city of Manaus is said to be approaching or even reaching herd immunity.

  • According to this, 66.1 percent of the population is said to have been infected with the corona virus *.

  • One immunologist described herd immunity as "a sign that the government has failed".

Manaus - Brazil's President

Jair Bolsonaro had downplayed

the

Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus

several times

as a "mild flu"

and attracted attention with statements like these.

Meanwhile,

Brazil

more than 4.6 million infected * since the beginning of the

pandemic

recorded, almost 140.00 people to

Covid-19

died

(source: Johns Hopkins University, 09/25/2020, 11:15)

.

Now researchers * are reporting in a

still unchecked evaluation

of the so-called

herd immunity

, which the population of the

Brazilian city of Manaus is

approaching or which it has possibly already reached.

Coronavirus in Brazil: herd immunity in Manaus?

- Stagnating case numbers

As the researchers write in their “preprint”, the coronavirus * in the Brazilian city of

Manaus,

which has just under 1.8 million inhabitants, is no longer

expected to

spread as rapidly as it did at the beginning of the

pandemic.

The reason for this is that it is estimated that up to two thirds of the population has already been infected.

The city recorded the first Covid-19 case on March 13.

By April, the number of new infections in Manaus had risen rapidly, while this number fell within the months of May to September.

The researchers conclude that the so-called

herd immunity.

Meanwhile, the number of coronavirus cases in Spain, which is in the second wave *, is increasing rapidly.

The Spanish islands are considered a risk area - wrongly?

Herd immunity

is a technical term that has been heard more and more frequently as the coronavirus pandemic progressed.

It is an indirect protection against a contagious disease that arises when a large part of the population is already

immune to the pathogen

- through

antibodies

developed

or the protection of a

vaccination

.

A herd immunity "to achieve naturally is dangerous because many people would die," said

Maria von Kerkhove

, the Covid-19 representative of the World Health Organization (WHO), at the end of August, as reported by the

German Medical Journal

, among others

.

WHO chief scientist

Soumya Swaminathan

said: "There is not a single infectious disease that has been brought under control by relying on natural immunity *."

Coronavirus: Preprint on herd immunity - 66.1 percent of the population in Manaus infected?

A team from the

Institute of Tropical Medicine at the University of Sao Paulo

analyzed

a total of more than a thousand samples from

blood donors

.

In the evaluation, 44 percent of the samples contained

antibodies

against the coronavirus.

The number of infections could be estimated at 66.1 percent, based on the fact that antibodies decrease over time.

But the study has some weaknesses.

On the one hand, samples from blood donors are

not representative

of the population, as the researchers themselves point out.

However, they describe their method of obtaining data as a "logistically feasible alternative".

On the other hand, the recorded

antibody

value is

more than double that from an antibody study that was

carried out

in

Manaus

at the end of May.

Assuming that the people of

Manaus have

actually achieved

herd immunity

, they paid a heavy price.

Based on projections, the “preprint” shows that 0.28 percent of those infected in the city died.

As reported by "Spiegel", among others, this corresponds to a Covid 19 death of 400 infected people and, compared to Munich, for example, an extremely high value.

According to official information from the city of Munich, a total of 223 of 1.5 million residents died

as

a result of an infection

(as of September 25, 2020).

Broken down, that would be a

Covid-19 death

of more than 6500 corona infected.

Meanwhile, outrageous details about the coronavirus outbreak in Hamm are coming to light.

Coronavirus: Herd immunity a "sign that the government is failing"

Immunologist

Florian Krammer

from Mount Sinau Hospital in New York spoke up on September 22nd.

Based on the path that

Brazil took

in the pandemic, he believes that herd immunity is possible there.

However, he took a clear stance: "Herd immunity from natural infections is

not a strategy

, but a sign that the government has failed to control an outbreak and has paid for it with lost lives." remains unclear for the time being.

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen network (mbr)

Since I already see it going this way: I did not endorse community immunity as a strategy.

Community immunity via natural infection is not a strategy, its a sign that a government failed to control an outbreak and is paying for that lost in lives.

https://t.co/o0hxHHTaho

- Florian Krammer (@florian_krammer) September 22, 2020

Source: merkur

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