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The Dark Side of Herd Immunity

December 1, 2022 9:00 am Published by 61 Comments

A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?


How Vaccines Drive Covid Variants

November 25, 2022 12:11 pm Published by 51 Comments

With a non-sterilising vaccine like the Covid ones, high viral load in the vaccinated helps drive vaccine-escape variants – a fact that should have been factored into the vaccination programmes but wasn't.