arrow Shake Shack will provide free burgers or fries to vaccinated New Yorkers. Ed Reed/Mayoral Photography Office Reaching Herd Immunity’ Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe Our Pathetic Herd Immunity Failure Why Herd Immunity Is Slipping Away What if We Can t Reach Herd Immunity? The World May Need To Learn To Live With The Virus
If a reader consumed only these headlines from The New York Times over the past two weeks, they might assume the United States had already lost the battle against COVID-19. Together, they portray that the variants and hesitancy have outmatched the scientific achievement of a generation: the development of safe and highly efficacious shots against an emergent pandemic in less than a year.