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The US is 'a long way' from beating the coronavirus with herd immunity, experts say, since that would require 50% of the population being immune

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"If I had to put my nickel on it, we don't have very high herd immunity in this population currently," said Elizabeth Halloran, a professor of biostatistics at UW and a biostatistician at Fred Hutch. "What we've done is reduce our transmission, and every model shows that if we open things up now, we will just have a rebound."

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