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	<title>Comments on: COVID-19 Cases Increase By 26 In Escambia, Santa Rosa</title>
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		<title>By: William Reynolds</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Reynolds</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 05:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&gt;&gt;.Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed? I

The Florida Department of Health removed that information from their daily report.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>>>.Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed? I</p>
<p>The Florida Department of Health removed that information from their daily report.</p>
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		<title>By: David Huie Green</title>
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		<dc:creator>David Huie Green</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 04:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>REGARDING:
&quot;Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity.&quot;

The existence of herd immunity in general terms isn&#039;t in question as seen by CDC definition below. Understand, it doesn&#039;t guaranty nobody will be infected, just that they are less likely to meet anyone infectious.

To get to that point, though, Johns Hopkins points out: &quot;To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune. Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold. Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue, 
over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time.&quot;
https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-a-dangerous-misconception

500,000 versus today&#039;s 80,037 total (and I have read elsewhere it might kill 2.5 million of us rather than &quot;just&quot; half a million)

If you knew who it wouldn&#039;t kill, you might infect those and quarantine them for a few weeks. (That is basically what a vaccination -- which we do not yet have -- does...and without the quarantine.)

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(Community immunity [Also known as herd immunity]:
 &quot;A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even individuals not vaccinated (such as newborns and those with chronic illnesses) are offered some protection because the disease has little opportunity to spread within the community.&quot;
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/terms/glossary.html )</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>REGARDING:<br />
&#8220;Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity.&#8221;</p>
<p>The existence of herd immunity in general terms isn&#8217;t in question as seen by CDC definition below. Understand, it doesn&#8217;t guaranty nobody will be infected, just that they are less likely to meet anyone infectious.</p>
<p>To get to that point, though, Johns Hopkins points out: &#8220;To reach herd immunity for COVID-19, likely 70% or more of the population would need to be immune. Without a vaccine, over 200 million Americans would have to get infected before we reach this threshold. Put another way, even if the current pace of the COVID-19 pandemic continues in the United States – with over 25,000 confirmed cases a day – it will be well into 2021 before we reach herd immunity. If current daily death rates continue,<br />
over half a million Americans would be dead from COVID-19 by that time.&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-a-dangerous-misconception" rel="nofollow">https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immunity-against-covid-19-a-dangerous-misconception</a></p>
<p>500,000 versus today&#8217;s 80,037 total (and I have read elsewhere it might kill 2.5 million of us rather than &#8220;just&#8221; half a million)</p>
<p>If you knew who it wouldn&#8217;t kill, you might infect those and quarantine them for a few weeks. (That is basically what a vaccination &#8212; which we do not yet have &#8212; does&#8230;and without the quarantine.)</p>
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(Community immunity [Also known as herd immunity]:<br />
 &#8220;A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even individuals not vaccinated (such as newborns and those with chronic illnesses) are offered some protection because the disease has little opportunity to spread within the community.&#8221;<br />
<a href="https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/terms/glossary.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/terms/glossary.html</a> )</p>
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		<title>By: SKB</title>
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		<dc:creator>SKB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 02:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed?  It helped knowing the number of new cases that were possibly able to infect people in the general public outside the facilities.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Why was the number of new cases in a long term care facility removed?  It helped knowing the number of new cases that were possibly able to infect people in the general public outside the facilities.</p>
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		<title>By: CW</title>
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		<dc:creator>CW</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 00:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity. Some reports out of Asia report people being infected a second time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nobody even knows if there is such a thing as herd immunity. Some reports out of Asia report people being infected a second time.</p>
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		<title>By: Doug Cox</title>
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		<dc:creator>Doug Cox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 21:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hope we are safe. I wish first responders to be safe from the virus that we keep spreading re</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hope we are safe. I wish first responders to be safe from the virus that we keep spreading re</p>
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		<title>By: Herd immunity</title>
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		<dc:creator>Herd immunity</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 21:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wear a mask. We are beginning herd immunity. No life is worth where we are heading. Stay safe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wear a mask. We are beginning herd immunity. No life is worth where we are heading. Stay safe.</p>
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		<title>By: Lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2020 21:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2,500 new cases in Florida just since Monday. What if we had a real plan for testing?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>2,500 new cases in Florida just since Monday. What if we had a real plan for testing?</p>
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