If San Francisco can give doses to 5,000 new people per day -- a number that's certainly possible once supplies increase -- then the city will reach 85% immunity in 96 days. That's May 30.
And by day 119, or June 22, 100% of eligible San Franciscans will have acquired some immunity to COVID-19, whether that's through receiving one dose, two doses or getting the disease itself.
California may not reach herd immunity for years.
Between the emergence of new coronavirus variants, unreliable vaccine supplies and uneven access to the doses available, it may take months or even years longer than anyone would like to hit herd immunity. It's possible California, the nation and the world may never get there. [...]
Assuming herd immunity is achievable, there are several variables that could slow it down. One unknown is how long immunity lasts after people are vaccinated. Some infectious disease experts fear immunity could start to wane in just a few months, which would mean the first round of people to be vaccinated will need boosters before the final groups get a single dose. But most experts believe immunity probably lasts longer than that, maybe years.
Brazil variant evaded up to 61% of immunity in previous COVID cases.
The coronavirus variant originally found in Manaus in Brazil and now detected in six cases in the UK was able to evade 25% to 61% of the protection people in the Amazonian city had after a first bout of Covid, researchers say. [...]
Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon basin, suffered a first wave of Covid in April/May. Studies of blood donors suggested 66% of people had antibodies against the virus in July and 76% by October, which would have been expected to give them immunity. [...] It spread rapidly: within eight weeks, it was implicated in 87% of cases.
Frequent illnesses from far away places is the new normal in our increasingly connected world. An estimated 100 people in the US die every day from influenza. If that can be achieved long-term with Sars-Cov-2, then that will be considered success.
There's no strong reason to believe it will ever be over. That doesn't mean it won't be, but all of the 'strong reasons' are more-or-less equivalent to the standard economics fuckwittery of 'this exponential process hasn't killed us yet, therefore it never will'.
You see, if it only kills half of us, and then it kills half of those remaining and so on, humanity will not die out.
Depends on which half. You'd have to assume a significant number of the survivors in each cycle are DTF.
I'm Brazilian. Prepare for the worst with our president actively sabotaging any attempts at even trying to fight covid.
Blame him if covid never goes away in the world.
Oh, don't worry: we here in The States have our own menagerie of morons looking to make COVID permanent.
Can we build a wall around Texas? With some kind of Underground Railroad to get friends in Austin out?
california state and bay area counties are looking for volunteers to help with vaccinations. with a goal of trying to double the rate of daily vaccinations quickly they probably need even more volunteers to help make it happen.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11859540/covid-19-vaccines-how-to-volunteer-to-help-distribution