Prognosis
Infect Everyone: How Herd Immunity Could Work for Poor Countries
- Letting virus spread less costly than lockdowns: researchers
- Young population means not as many deaths as European nations
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Controversial given the high risk of deaths, a coronavirus strategy discarded by the U.K. is being touted as the solution for poor but young countries like India.
Herd immunity, which allows a majority of the population to gain resistance to the virus by becoming infected and then recovering, could result in less economic devastation and human suffering than restrictive lockdowns designed to stop its spread, according to a growing group of experts.