A GOP congressman spotted walking around Congress without a mask said 'there's just no need' to wear one because of herd immunity
against the coronavirus. But that didn't stop one congressman from citing "herd immunity" as the reason he isn't wearing a mask in Congress.
Representative Ted Yoho, a Florida Republican, was seen walking around the House floor without a mask on Friday, CNN. When asked why he wasn't wearing a mask despite CDC guidance to the contrary, he responded, "There's just no need." Yoho, a former veterinarian, said that wearing a mask is not necessary because of "herd immunity." However, reports from Sweden, a country that used a herd-immunity approach to combat the virus, show that the strategy isWhen the CNN reporter pointed out that there's no evidence that herd immunity applies in the case of coronavirus, Yoho responded, "Viruses do what viruses do.
. However, World Health Organization emergencies director Dr. Mike Ryan noted, "Humans are not herds." Ryan said that the economics of herd immunity rely on the belief that an individual animal doesn't matter when making the decision to allow a pathogen to spread throughout a herd. Herd immunity is achieved when a large enough percentage of a population is immune to a pathogen so that it can't widely spread. For the coronavirus, that percentage is
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