‘Forget herd immunity’: Hong Kong experts say better to prepare to live with Covid-19, but more must get their jabs

Reaching herd immunity against Covid-19 is no longer a realistic goal for Hong Kong, medical experts agree, arguing instead for the city to prepare to live with the virus.Their warning came despite a recent increase in the vaccination rate and Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor’s prediction that the city would attain its goal of having 70 per cent of the population vaccinated by late September.Leading epidemiologists told the Post that the 70 per cent threshold for achieving herd…

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