What I worry about this is it's being presented as if it's a major alternative view held by large numbers of experts in the scientific community. That is not true. This is fringed component of epidemiology. This is not mainstream science. It is dangerous. It fits into the political views of certain parts of our confused political establishment.
Francis Collins expresses concern about the dangerous implications of the herd immunity strategy being promoted by the Trump administration.
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I`m a scientist, I`m a doctor, I`m not a politician, but somehow this is all gotten tangled up, and people have lost their grip on evidence of what ought to be used to make a decision like this.
I’m a patriot. I love my country, and I’m worried about my country right now.
Freedom has responsibilities, not just rights. And if this is what we have to do to get to the point where this virus is sent packing, well, that`s up to all of us to get there.
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