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With all due respect, you're incorrect with both numbers. We might achieve herd immunity with between 25 and 40% according to some sources. The initial 60-70 assumed a higher reproductive ratio than we've seen. We have also seen antibodies in around 20-25%. This is part of the reason for the...

Hey, it's his Saturday too.

It's a shot in the arm. Don't be "that guy".

Somewhere on the covid forum is the explanation for that. It's regional and seasonal analysis. It's why closer to the equator got it in the summer and the north in the winter.

Look at all the grousing people do about the flu vaccine, yet 99.9% of healthcare workers get it every year. A lot depends on how it goes at first, so we'll see. 20% supposedly get a mild fever. How many people bytch about the flu vaccine claiming it gave them the flu when that's impossible with...

We have influenza vaccines and Tamiflu is still in wide use.

Lol. There's no way a study like that could get approved, let alone be run above board.

Do you mean the Tuskegee study? The Tuskegee Study didn't involve the military. It was conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service which was declared part of the military in 1945, 13 years after the study started. And things have changed a tad since 1932. If you've listened to Adm Giroir about...

Military and healthcare workers don't have much of a choice.

I'd think front line healthcare workers would be near the top.

If I were elderly, I'd be first in line for the vaccine.

No vaccine will save 2020. It's very possible we're close to herd immunity though.