Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic I have repeatedly warned against pursuing a herd immunity strategy Prime Minister Boris Johnson Contracts Coronavirus After Promoting Shaking Hands With Sick Patients And Faulty Herd Immunity (March 27, 2020) and Britain Death Toll From Coronavirus Becomes The Highest In Europe Due To Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Failed Herd Immunity Strategy (May 7, 2020)

However, some such as Boris Johnson, among others, opted to pursue this path and to very poor and deadly results. There are nations that are over the prescribed 70% of the population threshold (in vaccinations) and still experiencing massive coronavirus waves that are sickening and killing many, indicating herd immunity is not being achieved. This confirms my previous site claims, as listed above in the aforementioned article links.

This week mainstream scientists have publicly warned against herd immunity in reference to the coronavirus (COVID-19) referring to it as "mythical." Oxford Vaccine Group representative, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, stated to the British Parliament, "The problem with this virus is [it is] not measles. If 95% of people were vaccinated against measles, the virus cannot transmit in the population. The Delta variant will still infect people who have been vaccinated. And that does mean that anyone who’s still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus … and we don’t have anything that will [completely] stop that transmission."

Delta variant renders herd immunity from Covid ‘mythical’

Head of Oxford Vaccine Group rules out overall immunity, but also questions need for booster jabs

Tue 10 Aug 2021 12.57 EDT last modified on Wed 11 Aug 2021 05.59 EDT - Reaching herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current Delta variant, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said.

Giving evidence to MPs on Tuesday, Prof Sir Andrew Pollard said the fact that vaccines did not stop the spread of Covid meant reaching the threshold for overall immunity in the population was “mythical”.

“The problem with this virus is [it is] not measles. If 95% of people were vaccinated against measles, the virus cannot transmit in the population,” he told the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on coronavirus.

“The Delta variant will still infect people who have been vaccinated. And that does mean that anyone who’s still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus … and we don’t have anything that will [completely] stop that transmission.”

Although the existing vaccines are very effective at preventing serious Covid illness and death, they do not stop a fully vaccinated person from being infected by the virus that causes Covid-19.

The concept of herd or population immunity relies on a large majority of a population gaining immunity – either through vaccination or previous infection – which, in turn, provides indirect protection from an infectious disease for the unvaccinated and those who have never been previously infected.

Data from a recent React study conducted by Imperial College London suggests that fully vaccinated people aged 18 to 64 have about a 49% lower risk of being infected compared with unvaccinated people. The findings also indicated that fully vaccinated people were about half as likely to test positive after coming into contact with someone who had Covid (3.84%, down from 7.23%).

About 75% of all UK adults have now received both their jabs...

https://www.theguardian.com