Hong Kong’s coronavirus containment strategy must begin easing restrictions – or risk losing control

The concept of “herd immunity” got off to a bad start in Hong Kong, because it was the catchphrase used to describe a disastrous – and fortunately short-lived – United Kingdom policy response to the coronavirus outbreak.The dictionary definition is “resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination”. So herd immunity is in fact a desirable situation to bring…

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