'No magic target' to reach herd immunity, Walensky says

While President Joe Biden set a goal to have 70% of Americans receive at least one shot of a COVID-19 vaccine by July 4, the target doesn’t correlate to the concept of herd immunity, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director said Thursday. "We know that the more and more people who get one vaccine and then two get fully vaccinated the more we as a nation are protected," Dr. Rochelle Walensky said, while appearing on NBC’s TODAY. "We know that the vaccine not only protects individuals it protects communities it protects their families -- and so the more people who get vaccinated, as we all have talked about, there is no magic target for the herd immunity but we believe that getting to 70% would go an extraordinarily long way to making sure we have community protection."-- More...