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   https://www.foxnews.com/health/amish-community-coronavirus-herd-immunity-   
   health-official-says   
      
   An Amish community in Pennsylvania may have become the first group in the   
   U.S. to achieve herd immunity, a local health official claims.   
      
   The administrator of a medical center in the heart of Lancaster County’s   
   New Holland Borough, which is known for its Amish and Mennonite   
   communities, estimates that as many as 90 percent of the religious   
   families have had at least one family member infected with the virus.   
      
   "So, you would think if COVID was as contagious as they say, it would go   
   through like a tsunami; and it did," said Allen Hoover, an administrator   
   of the Parochial Medical Center, which caters to the religious community   
   and has 33,000 patients.   
      
   CORONAVIRUS SURVIVOR HUGS DAUGHTERS AFTER MONTHS-LONG HOSPITAL STAY   
      
   The Amish and Mennonite groups initially complied with stay-at-home orders   
   at the beginning of the pandemic — shuttering schoolhouses and canceling   
   church services.   
      
   But by late April, they had resumed worship services, where they shared   
   communion cups and holy kisses, a church greeting among believers.   
      
   Soon after, the virus tore throughout the religious enclave.   
      
   "It was bad here in the spring; one patient right after another," said Pam   
   Cooper, a physician’s assistant at the Parochial Medical Center.   
      
   In late April and early May, the county’s positivity rate for COVID-19   
   tests exceeded 20 percent, according to nonprofit Covid Act Now.   
      
   WHO'S INQUIRY INTO COVID-19 OUTBREAK 'HIGHLY CHAPERONED,' SAYS EX-NSC   
   OFFICIAL   
      
   But Hoover said that it’s impossible to know the full extent of the virus   
   outbreak since he estimates that fewer than 10 percent of patients   
   displaying symptoms consented to being tested.   
      
   The medical center saw on average nearly a dozen infections a day, or   
   around 15 percent of the patients it serves daily, Hoover said.   
      
   While infections ebbed through the summer, before picking up again in the   
   fall, Hoover said new cases are now far and few in between.   
      
   The center hasn’t had a patient present with virus symptoms in roughly six   
   weeks, Hoover said.   
      
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   But some experts are more skeptical that a large outbreak has led to   
   widespread immunity in the community.   
      
   Eric Lofgren, an infectious disease epidemiologist at Washington State   
   University, said herd immunity is possible but rare.   
      
   "It would be the first general population in the United States that’s done   
   it," Lofgren said.   
      
   Though experts have suggested that as many as 90 percent of people would   
   need to be infected to achieve herd immunity, others said the exact   
   threshold is still unclear.   
      
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   "The key is that there is not necessarily a magic number," said David   
   Dowdy, a professor in the epidemiology department at Johns Hopkins   
   Bloomberg School of Public Health.   
      
   Previous infections also might not be enough to protect against new   
   variants of the virus, some experts have warned.   
      
   "The only true herd immunity that we can bring as a community is for   
   people to be vaccinated," said Alice Yoder, executive director of   
   Community Health at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health.   
      
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   jjmurray739   
   29 March, 2021   
      
   So, what was the death rate among these groups?  It sounds like they   
   didn't continue their lockdowns very long and if their death rates were no   
   worse than the rest of the country then that would be good evidence that   
   the lockdowns really aren't as necessary as people want you to think   
   anymore.   
   I had no problem with the initial lockdown - we needed to do something to   
   buy some time to figure out how to treat people infected.  That was the   
   "flatten the curve" everyone talked about back then.  Well, it worked.   
   The hospitals were not overwhelmed (even though some continue to predict   
   they will be) and we figured out how to treat people and what does and   
   does not work to help them survive.  The ongoing lockdowns every time   
   there is a slight uptick in cases however is nothing more than kneejerk   
   reactions that are not based in science but instead are driven by   
   politics.   
      
      
      
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   "LOCKDOWN", left-wing COVID fearmongering.  95% of COVID infections   
   recover with no after effects.   
      
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   queer liberal democrat donors.   
      
   President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed   
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