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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

IS NATURAL IMMUNITY LOWERING COVID CASES?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Despite the WHO’s attempt to redefine ‘natural herd immunity,’ the term has suddenly reappeared in the news cycle to explain the 55% drop in #Coronavirus cases this last month. A study in India revealed over half of the residents in its capital city already have antibodies, the majority of whom were never infected. Hasn’t The HighWire been saying this all along?

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0:00.0

Suddenly, there's a lot of herd immunity talk again in the headlines.

0:04.3

It kind of went away.

0:05.6

Natural immunity, great-barrington declaration in October.

0:10.4

They kind of put that aside and did a lot of attacking on that.

0:13.3

But now, since the vaccines are being rolled out, we're seeing this again.

0:17.2

And we're seeing, let's look at a tweet.

0:19.4

This was Dr. Marty McCary.

0:23.0

And he is a surgical professor at Johns Hopkins University.

0:26.8

He's also a health expert in public policy.

0:30.0

And he says he's encouraged to see a 55% decrease in daily coronavirus cases over the last month.

0:36.6

Now, remember, the WHO attempted to redefine herd immunity over the last six months or so,

0:42.8

saying that you can only really achieve it through a vaccine.

0:46.0

They tried to remove the idea of getting herd immunity through natural infection.

0:50.5

So let's take a look at Dr. McCary here on Fox and Friends.

0:54.6

This was a recent clip of him. It's pretty interesting.

0:57.6

So Dr. Gandhi, quick question for you here.

1:00.2

When are we going to hit herd immunity?

1:02.0

And have we considered the number of people previously infected?

1:06.5

I mean, if the trackers are saying, say, the Johns Hopkins tracker today is about 24 million confirmed cases,

1:13.2

cumulatively nationwide, we've been diagnosing what?

1:17.0

One in four to one in 10 cases during the history of the pandemic in the US.

1:22.1

Is that about right?

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