State Health Officer Dr. Jimmy Guidry calls a pop theory advocating for the purposeful COVID infection of people under the guise of creating herd immunity a “myth”.
Guidry says the theory has no evidence to back it up and ignores just how volatile viruses can be.
“The more infections they cause the more they can change, and they can change to be a worse virus or they could just go away and you don’t know which way they are going to go. So by letting everyone get it you are playing with fire,” says Guidry.
To obtain herd immunity a population would need 60 percent immunity. Even in New York City, the worst single epicenter in the country, herd immunity is believed to be under 20 percent.
Guidry says the theory is also based on a faulty assumption that if you can’t get infected more than once.
“It can create antibody change in your body and then that antibody is there for a while and then it is gone, so will you get it again? We really don’t know, we have seen some people get it again once they have had it,” says Guidry.
Yesterday’s spike in cases was the third-highest on record and nearly ten percent of all tests done are showing up positive. Guidry says this is no time for risky behavior.
“This disease is coming back, and it is coming back with a vengeance and we better start getting serious,” says Guidry.
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