The current American leader Donald Trump was to allow millions of Americans to contract the coronavirus to develop herd immunity. Politico writes about it.
The administration’s plans are disclosed in emails received by one of the officials. Trump supporters are said to have urged health officials to allow massive infections in the population. In addition, they allegedly persuaded scientists to “make statements sympathetic to the position of the president.”
“Children, adolescents, young people, middle-aged people without serious health complications, for whom [infection with the virus] will not cause risks, should develop herd immunity (…) naturally,” reads one of the letters.
Politico recalls that senior officials in the Trump administration have repeatedly denied his plans to develop herd immunity.
December 16, the chief US infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauchi revealed the condition for the emergence of” real “herd immunity. According to him, for this it is necessary to vaccinate more than 75 percent of the country’s population. The scientist emphasized that it is more likely that about 85 percent of citizens will need to be vaccinated.