مناعة القطيع ليست علمية

أخبار الأمم المتحدة, 13 أكتوبر, قال المدير العام لمنظمة الصحة العالمية، تيدروس أدهانوم غيبريسوس، في مؤتمر صحفي بجنيف اليوم، إن هناك بعض المناقشات الأخيرة حول مفهوم ما يسمى “مناعة القطيع” من خلال انتشار الفيروس, ولكن هذا هناك مشاكل في العلم والأخلاق, وهو بالتأكيد ليس خيارًا قابلاً للتطبيق.

Tan Desai said that herd immunity is a concept used for vaccination. In this concept, if the threshold of vaccination is reached, the population can be protected from a certain virus. فمثلا, herd immunity to measles requires approximately 95% of the population to be vaccinated. المتبقي 5% will be protected because measles will not spread among vaccinated people. For polio, the threshold is about 80%. بعبارة أخرى, herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from the virus, not by exposing them to the virus.

He pointed out that in the history of public health, herd immunity has never been used as a strategy to deal with a general infectious disease outbreak, let alone a global pandemic. He said that allowing the virus to spread uncontrollably means allowing unnecessary infections, suffering and death.

Tan Desai emphasized that it is totally unethical to allow a dangerous virus that we do not fully understand to spread freely. مناعة القطيع ليست علمية. This is definitely not an option.