Epidemiologist: Herd immunity is 'possibly the least terrible' response to COVID-19
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🗓️ 1 December 2020
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Epidemiologist and UNC professor Daniel Halperin says that a cautious herd immunity approach to the COVID-19 pandemic is “possibly the least terrible option."
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| 0:00.0 | Alright folks, welcome to another edition of John Solomon Reports. This is Daniel |
| 0:10.6 | Payne. I'm a reporter with Just The News. As you might have already guessed, John Solomon |
| 0:15.0 | is not here today. He's taken a little vacation and he's left me in charge. We'll know by |
| 0:19.6 | the end of the week whether or not that was a wise decision on his part. In the meantime, |
| 0:24.4 | I'm glad to be here and I hope you all enjoy the change up of hosts for a few days. There's |
| 0:29.3 | obviously an all-news to cover these days, but of course, seemingly overshadowing everything |
| 0:34.7 | is the COVID-19 pandemic, which has been ongoing in the US for nearly a year at this point. |
| 0:40.2 | We're almost a year since the first confirmed case in the United States. It's pretty much been |
| 0:46.7 | in the headlines since January. COVID cases, COVID deaths, spread of the virus, the lockdowns, |
| 0:51.7 | the school closures. We're all unfortunately very familiar with it at this point. Later this |
| 0:58.5 | week we're actually going to be focusing on a specific topic related to COVID-19. That's |
| 1:05.6 | the pandemic's effect on children, specifically the effects that lockdowns are having on kids. |
| 1:11.5 | Today, I thought we'd do just a brief, broad overview of the pandemic here in the US. Of course, |
| 1:17.5 | it is a global phenomenon, but certainly we are focused on it, most particularly here in the US. |
| 1:25.0 | I want to look at a few pandemic stories. You may have missed because they're not generally |
| 1:30.4 | covered very heavily in the media. As I said, this has been pretty much the dominant media story |
| 1:37.3 | containing with certainly the presidential election of the past year, but there are a number of, |
| 1:43.4 | I think, really important stories that the media does miss. They don't cover as thoroughly as they |
| 1:48.2 | should. Of course, we try and bring you the best coverage of everything at just the news and we |
| 1:54.4 | have covered a lot of these issues. I want to add that we're going to have a guest on later. His |
| 1:58.9 | name is Daniel Halpert. He's a professor at UNC Chapel Hill and he was previously at Harvard. |
| 2:03.1 | He'll have some expert insight into the pandemic that I think you'll all find very valuable. |
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