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 Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz is an epidemiologist working in chronic disease in Sydney's west, with a particular focus on diabetes. He writes a weekly blog on public health, policy, and science communication-particularly where these things go wrong. He has recently begun a PhD with the University of Wollongong researching the social determinants of diabetes, and is passionate about the social causes of our ill health. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200411111948/https://www.acsh.org/profile/gideon-meyerowitz-katz)) Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz is an epidemiologist working in chronic disease in Sydney's west, with a particular focus on diabetes. He writes a weekly blog on public health, policy, and science communication-particularly where these things go wrong. He has recently begun a PhD with the University of Wollongong researching the social determinants of diabetes, and is passionate about the social causes of our ill health. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20200411111948/https://www.acsh.org/profile/gideon-meyerowitz-katz))
  
-** ACSH is a legacy Front Group for big tobacco & toxic chemicals featured in San Francisco Uni's Legacy Tobacco Archive ((https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20121018225852/https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health))+NOTE ->> ACSH is a legacy Front Group for big tobacco & toxic chemicals featured in San Francisco Uni's Legacy Tobacco Archive ((https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health)) ((https://web.archive.org/web/20121018225852/https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/American_Council_on_Science_and_Health))
  
 === Huffington Post Bio === === Huffington Post Bio ===
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 This, the idea goes, means that only a few percent need to catch the disease to reach the herd immunity threshold, and so we’re probably already there and there’s nothing more to worry about. This, the idea goes, means that only a few percent need to catch the disease to reach the herd immunity threshold, and so we’re probably already there and there’s nothing more to worry about.
    
-While it’s a popular line, it makes very little sense for a number of reasons. If nothing else, we already know, from superspreading events, that most people can catch COVID-19 if they are exposed and that pre-existing T cells might make COVID-19 less deadly, but it certainly doesn’t make you immune. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20201101020642/https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/gp-opinion/herd-immunity-for-covid-19-is-still-a-terrible-ide))+While it’s a popular line, it makes very little sense for a number of reasons. If nothing else, we already know, from superspreading events, that most people can catch COVID-19 if they are exposed and that pre-existing [[:T cells]] might make COVID-19 less deadly, but it certainly doesn’t make you immune. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20201101020642/https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/gp-opinion/herd-immunity-for-covid-19-is-still-a-terrible-ide))
  
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