One pathway out of this pandemic uses both vaccines and natural infection to get to something like herd immunity
‘Flattening the curve with Omicron would look like allowing the daily infections in a given state or jurisdiction to get up to the level where hospitalisation caseload is manageable.’‘Flattening the curve with Omicron would look like allowing the daily infections in a given state or jurisdiction to get up to the level where hospitalisation caseload is manageable.’Public discourse about Omicron is largely focused on the next few weeks.
The second general pathway out of this pandemic is a messier one – using both vaccines and natural infection to get to something like herd immunity.that an infection with a pre-Delta variant was 13 times better than two doses of Pfizer at preventing a Delta infection.
Could letting Omicron in at levels high enough to generate a meaningful contribution to building up our resilience and immunity be a wise move? This option harks right back to the beginning of the pandemic, when we talked about flattening the curve. At, for arguments sake, an average of 20,000 infections a day that would be about 2m infections over four months. Or about a quarter of the population of NSW or Victoria.
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