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		Kaiyou on April 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fear and beauty: two weeks living with Covid-19 At what percentage would you speak of broadly? 6M cases are 1.5%.

SAI_Peregrinus on April 15, 2020 [–]

And given the estimated R0 being >5 we need over 80% infection/vaccination rate (256 million in the US) to reach herd immunity.

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