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Why ‘herd immunity’ can’t save us from COVID-19 – Los Angeles Times

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It made headlines last month when reports surfaced that Dr. Scott Atlas, a member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and advisor to the president, recommended it as a strategy to combat COVID-19. Atlas, a former chief of neuroradiology at Stanford who now focuses on healthcare policy, suggested the virus should be allowed to spread through the population so that people build up immunity, rather than trying to contain it through shutdown measures, according to the Washington Post.

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