Why simply waiting for herd immunity to covid-19 isn’t an option | MIT Technology Review

Why simply waiting for herd immunity to covid-19 isn’t an option | MIT Technology Review: The widespread perception that it was once official British policy to let the novel coronavirus spread until the population reached herd immunity is false; the government was just overly optimistic about how easy flattening the curve would be. (Update, Apr 29: actually, no—herd immunity was indeed the plan, according to a new investigation by the…