{"id":157966,"date":"2021-02-21T21:01:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=157966"},"modified":"2021-02-21T21:13:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:13:29","slug":"as-l-a-appears-to-gain-some-herd-immunity-experts-seem-optimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-l-a-appears-to-gain-some-herd-immunity-experts-seem-optimistic\/","title":{"rendered":"As L.A. Appears To Gain Some Herd Immunity, Experts Seem Optimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fas-l-a-appears-to-gain-some-herd-immunity-experts-seem-optimistic%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=157966&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BE57A9F5-83E7-4AF6-9315-472741CC1F7A_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>As coronavirus cases drop around the country, there is a new sense of optimism coming out of Los Angeles county. According to reporting by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">L.A. Times<\/a> on Saturday, \u201cMany epidemiologists and other scientists, while still cautious, say they feel increasingly hopeful that the rest of 2021 will not replay the nightmare of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Paul Offit, a vaccine expert at Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, said, \u201cI could be wrong, but I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to see a big fourth surge. \u2026 I think we\u2019ve seen the worst of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experts say that the coming of the spring season will also allow for people to be outside and make it less likely for the virus to spread.<\/p>\n<p>12% of Americans have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">reportedly<\/a> received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, but Offit estimated that approximately 35% of the United States\u2019 population has been previously infected.<\/p>\n<div class=\"enhancement\" data-align-center>UC San Francisco epidemiologist Dr. George Rutherford said that one of the factors as to why cases are dropping so rapidly in California \u201cis because of naturally acquired immunity, mostly in Southern California.\u201d He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">reportedly<\/a> estimated that 50% of Los Angeles County residents have been infected with the virus at some point.<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really talking something starting to sound and look like herd immunity \u2014 although that true herd immunity is a ways off in the future,\u201d Rutherford said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Herd immunity is something that is achieved when a certain amount of people have immunity to a virus, making the virus unable to find new hosts and spread. This results in a community-wide level of protection.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">L.A. Times,<\/a> scientists believe that the threshold for herd immunity could be 90% with this coronavirus. The U.S. has not met this yet, but experts say that each step toward it slows down the transmission of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The effects may be greatest in places that endured the worst COVID-19 surges, including Los Angeles. After a horrific autumn and winter wave that has killed more than 12,000 people, an estimated 33% to 55% of county residents have already been infected with the coronavirus, according to USC researchers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>New daily cases in L.A. County have been falling for five weeks, and previous infections have helped this occur, providing enough of an effect to blunt the spread of the virus, according to Dr. Roger Lewis, director of COVID-19 hospital demand modeling for the L.A. County Department of Health Services.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you had the exact same behavior and type of virus circulating that we have right now, but we were at the beginning of the pandemic and no one was immune yet \u2026 we\u2019d be in the midst of an ongoing surge,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fact that cases are going down right now, as opposed to going up, is because approximately a third of everybody in Los Angeles County is immune to COVID.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The L.A. Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2021-02-20\/covid-19-pandemic-herd-immunity-vaccinations-plummeting-cases\">reporting<\/a> adds that new variants of the virus could undermine the positive projections, \u201ceither by proving more resistant to existing vaccines or by finding a way to spread more easily. Shifts in behavior could also render this good news moot, as it holds only if people stick to the precautions they have been taking thus far, experts say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>L.A. County chief science officer Dr. Paul Simon made the point that 60% of Angelenos would remain susceptible even if more than a third have already been infected with the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want to provide a false sense of assurance here,\u201d said Simon. \u201cUnless they\u2019ve had vaccination, they continue to be susceptible. I think we need to continue to be vigilant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span><em>member<\/em><\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As coronavirus cases drop around the country, there is a new sense of optimism coming out of Los Angeles county. According to reporting by the L.A. 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