Could California Reopen Earlier Than June 15? Patch 6 hrs ago Kat Schuster © Rich Fury/Getty Images Customers enter Amoeba Music during its grand reopening at a new location on Hollywood Boulevard earlier this month.
LOS ANGELES, CA Dr. Timothy Brewer recalled seeing more than 200 coronavirus patients during a holiday weekend in late January across the University of California, Los Angeles medical campuses. Last weekend, Brewer said the hospital system had only three patients in need of treatment for the virus. That s just a huge difference, he told Patch.
Brewer is a professor of infectious disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.
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Elusive herd immunity likely won t stop COVID-19 in the US but vaccines can control it, experts say Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
For almost a year, Americans have been looking forward to herd immunity, when enough people are protected through vaccination or past infection to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Once there, public officials have said, masks won t be necessary and hugging and handshakes – not to mention gyms, bars and indoor dining – can return.
But even as more than half of Americans have received at least one dose of vaccine and many others are protected by recent infections, public officials are moving away from the idea of reaching some magic number.