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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, warned against the idea that herd immunity could be a realistic strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic. According to him, such proposals are “simply unethical.”
He said this in a briefing on October 12.
“Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from the virus, not exposing them. Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a response strategy to an outbreak,” said the WHO chief.
He added that too little is known about immunity to COVID-19 to know whether herd immunity is achievable.
“We have some clues, but we don’t have the whole picture … Allowing a dangerous virus that we do not fully understand to act freely is simply unethical,” Gebreyesus said.
The WHO estimates that less than 10% of the population has some form of immunity to the coronavirus, which means that the vast majority of the world’s population remains susceptible to it.
Also previously, the organization stated that 10% of the world population could be infected with the coronavirus, and the number of confirmed cases is greatly underestimated and does not correspond to the real situation.
In addition, the WHO recently registered a new anti-coronavirus daily record.
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