At a precarious point with COVID, we have a responsibility to care for one another
Dear Editor:
I am not much for that kumbaya, we’re all in this together, stuff.
But, the promise of herd immunity for COVID-19 — that if around 75% of us were vaccinated or otherwise developed antibodies the other 25% would also be protected — has now been flipped on its head with the delta variant. Because of delta’s transmissibility and the extraordinary (1000x) viral load it produces in a human body, unvaccinated hosts become their own one-person super-spreader event for the disease. Fu...