{"id":12669,"date":"2021-06-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12669"},"modified":"2021-06-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T15:30:00","slug":"coronavirus-no-certainty-on-herd-immunity-until-we-know-more-about-vaccines-and-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=12669","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: no certainty on herd immunity until we know more about vaccines and variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis is the sixth in a series about China\u2019s plans to reopen its borders amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Simone McCarthy and Zhuang Pinghui look into the problems in pinning down when \u201cherd immunity\u201d can be achieved.Herd immunity \u2013 when enough of a population is immune to the coronavirus that its spread is limited \u2013 has been a goal of governments since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.Now, as a handful of nations have vaccinated at least half of their population, attention has turned to\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3138210\/coronavirus-no-certainty-herd-immunity-until-we-know-more-about?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThis is the sixth in a series about China\u2019s plans to reopen its borders amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Here, Simone McCarthy and Zhuang Pinghui&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}