OK. How does one country not handling a pandemic threaten the world?
It's certainly bad for the people there, but how is it bad for the rest of us? It's a pandemic, it's not like failing to contain the initial outbreak.
It's certainly bad for the people there, but how is it bad for the rest of us? It's a pandemic, it's not like failing to contain the initial outbreak.
I'm not saying this would be a good idea, but Brazil is unlikely to be able to adequately vaccinate its population in the next year. This should be a consideration, as it was in March 2020 in several European countries before they adopted the chinese strategy.
Herd immunity is applicable to immunity and susceptibility in a population. https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/52/7/911/299077
That's obviously false, given that we are observing many meaningful variants without anything close to herd immunity.
Each person infected is an additional chance of a variant with antigenic escape, let alone vaccine escape.
What is scaring the world the most now is the possibility of a new brazilian variant that can escape current vaccines. That would move the whole world to the beginning of the pandemic again.