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Letter: On the search for ways to end the pandemic

Published 23 September 2020

From Jonathan Watson, London, UK

Could there be an alternative to a coronavirus vaccine to achieve herd immunity if we could come up with a test to predict who would be asymptomatic? Many people would probably fall into this category (5 September, p 7). They might have something in common other than their underlying good health that could be the basis of such a test.

If this were possible, then herd immunity might be achievable with deliberate asymptomatic infection rather than vaccination.

Issue no. 3301 published 26 September 2020

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