Professor Stephen Maceno says WHO changed the meaning of herd immunity during COVID, removing natural recovery as a path to immunity.
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00:00I guess I'd mention one other thing, which is about the vaccines.
00:03The message was being pushed to many places that you would not get immunity from contracting
00:09the virus and recovering.
00:11The World Health Organization actually changed the definition of herd immunity on its website
00:16over the summer of 2020 from saying that herd immunity or population-level immunity could
00:22be gotten from people either getting vaccinated or getting the virus and recovering.
00:27And they changed it over the summer of 2020 to say herd immunity came from vaccination,
00:31period.
00:32And I think the reason why they did that was to discourage people from contracting the
00:36vaccine and encourage them to wait for the—discourage people from getting the virus, encouraging
00:44them to wait for the vaccine, which was fine.
00:46But that was a misleading message that had nothing to do with well-established science.