Elephant herd takes a snooze after embarking on 300-mile trek across China since escaping

Walking across China is quite tiring! Elephant herd takes a snooze after embarking on 300-mile trek since escaping from a nature reserve Herd of 15 elephants broke out of a nature reserve in southern China on April 16 and began a long march north They have since walked 300 miles, the longest migration on record … Read more

Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn

Revealed: Vaccine passports will be a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ before full herd immunity by this autumn (as 63% of voters back their use) Ministers planning to use vaccine passports as a short-term ‘bridge to freedom’ The passports will allow the return of mass public gatherings in the summer ‘Covid status certificates’ will not likely … Read more

Britain will pass threshold for herd immunity on MONDAY

Britain is set to pass the threshold for herd immunity on Monday, scientists say. Modelling by University College London (UCL) suggests that 73.4 per cent of the population will have protection against Covid by April 12. The figures outdo pessimistic estimations by Imperial College this week – which suggested that just 34 per cent would have … Read more

Amish community ‘is the first in the United States to achieve herd immunity to Covid’

An Amish community in Pennsylvania has become ‘the first in the US to achieve herd immunity to COVID-19‘ after 90 per cent of their households became infected with the virus when they resumed church services late last spring.  The administrator of a medical center in the heart of the Amish community in New Holland Borough … Read more

Facebook flags WSJ op-ed on ‘herd immunity’ by Johns Hopkins professor as ‘fake news’

The Wall Street Journal has claimed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ after an op-d written by Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary (pictured) was flagged last week. The Wall Street Journal has revealed that Facebook fact-checkers relied on ‘opinion and not facts’ when they flagged an op-ed that was written by … Read more

Britain and the US could achieve herd immunity through Covid vaccines before the end of 2021

Britain and the US may be on the cusp of herd immunity by the end of 2021 thanks to their speedy Covid vaccine roll-outs, data suggested today. But forecasters analysing the current pace of the global inoculation drive have warned Germany, France and Italy must rapidly speed up to reach the same threshold. Herd immunity … Read more

Expert suggests huge 82 per cent plunge in cases in just six weeks could be down to herd immunity

What is ‘herd immunity’?  Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. Effectively, it means that once people have some form of immunity, it reduces the ability of a disease to spread among the population. Therefore someone … Read more

Johns Hopkins doctor claims the US will reach herd immunity by April

Johns Hopkins professor Dr Marty Makary has made a bold claim: ‘We’ll have herd immunity by April,’ he wrote in a Wall Street Journal editorial.   Dr Makary estimates that the U.S. will have herd immunity by then, driven by the high, but underestimated, number of people who have been infected already and vaccination.  ‘Some medical … Read more

Bumble dating app founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is a billionaire at 31

Bumble’s billionaire… at just 31: Dating app founder celebrates a stellar first-day trading performance on Wall Street By Daily Mail City & Finance Reporter Published: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 | Updated: 21:51 GMT, 11 February 2021 Dating app Bumble’s founder has become a billionaire at 31. Whitney Wolfe Herd’s wealth jumped from £362million to … Read more

Biden administration fears it could take nine months to reach herd immunity

The US may not reach herd immunity and return to some semblance of normalcy until Thanksgiving at the current pace of COVID-19 vaccinations and speed of variant spread, Biden administration officials told the Daily Beast.  That’s far later than the end-of-summer target date by which Dr Anthony Fauci has estimated that American life might get … Read more