{"id":26288,"date":"2020-10-20T09:26:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=26288"},"modified":"2020-10-20T09:26:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T09:26:46","slug":"concept-of-covid-herd-immunity-rescuing-americans-is-nonsense-fauci-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=26288","title":{"rendered":"Concept of COVID Herd Immunity rescuing Americans is &#8216;Nonsense,&#8217; Fauci Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"News_list_rdr art\">\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<h3>Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News<\/h3>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The concept of herd immunity in the fight against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/wuhan_coronavirus_2019-ncov_symptoms_and_signs\/symptoms.htm\" onclick=\"wmdTrack('embd-lnk');\" rel=\"sym\">COVID-19<\/a> pandemic is &#8220;nonsense,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, says.<\/p>\n<p>Herd immunity &#8212; the theory that a disease will stop spreading once nearly everybody has contracted it &#8212; is being pushed by the Trump administration as a way to reopen schools and businesses, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>A group of scientists released a declaration that supports herd immunity, but Fauci warned against it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you talk to anybody who has any experience in epidemiology and infectious diseases, they will tell you that that is risky and you&#8217;ll wind up with many more infections of vulnerable people, which will lead to hospitalizations and death,&#8221; he said on Good Morning America on Thursday, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I think that we&#8217;ve just got to look that square in the eye and say it&#8217;s nonsense,&#8221; Fauci said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MedicalNews\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/images.medicinenet.com\/images\/HealthDay\/healthday.png\" style=\"border: none;\"\/><br \/>Copyright \u00a9 2019 HealthDay. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>                            <!--CONTINUEREADING--><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"http:\/\/www.medicinenet.com\/script\/main\/art.asp?articlekey=247883\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Latest Prevention &amp; Wellness News &#13; MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 (HealthDay News) &#8212; The concept of herd immunity in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is &#8220;nonsense,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert, says. Herd immunity &#8212; the theory that a disease will stop spreading once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-life-style"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/1601354401_fb-mnet-default.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}