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Lord Ludd

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3. At least a year before an effective vaccine is available.
Tue Mar 17, 2020, 10:54 PM
Mar 2020

For everyone to become immune, doesn't that mean a 100% infection rate? Or is there some other way to achieve immunity?

At a conservative (at this time) 0.5% mortality rate, that's more than 1.6 million U.S. deaths, 35,000,000 worldwide.

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