Fauci says attempt to get coronavirus herd immunity would result in 'enormous' death toll

Source: The Hill | August 14, 2020 | Joseph Guzman

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, discussed herd immunity with actor Matthew McConaughey Thursday on Instagram.

The nation’s top infectious diseases expert warned that the U.S. would see a staggering death toll from the coronavirus if the country allowed infections to spread across the nation unchecked in an effort to achieve so-called herd immunity. 

“If everyone contracted it, even with the relatively high percentage of people without symptoms…a lot of people are going to die,” Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told actor Matthew McConaughey during a live discussion on Instagram Thursday. 

“If you look at the United States of America with our epidemic of obesity as it were, with the number of people with hypertension, with the number of people with diabetes, if everyone got infected, the death toll would be enormous and totally unacceptable,” the White House coronavirus adviser said. 

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While researchers believe 60 to 80 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated or have antibodies to achieve herd immunity, Johns Hopkins University data shows less than 2 percent of the population has been infected. 

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