Early in the virus, a few countries like Britain and Sweden seemed to embrace the idea of establishing her immunity by protecting the vulnerable, but letting everyone else get the disease. This did not work, because people were needlessly dying.
Anyway, it sure seems like we have backed into a herd immunity strategy. Because so many people can be asymptomatic, even though the confirmed number of infected Americans is almost 3,000,000, some projections suggest we could be closer to 15,000,000 Americans who have been infected. The question is whether we have acquired enough therapeutic options to prevent deaths from reaching 500,000 by New Year's.
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