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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3966175, member: 1329"] As a country, probably not. New England will make it, though. Herd immunity is a community level thing, thankfully, as it's based on continuable local transmission. Other parts of the country can't "infect" us if we're at herd immunity locally. Small pockets may pop up, but they'll die out on their own without intervention. CT and MA are likely already there, assuming most or all of the first dosers get the 2nd dose, and we're still dosing at high levels without much fall off. [MEDIA=twitter]1390010154771488771[/MEDIA] It takes a bit to ramp down, because at the core it's about the virus not being able to get R above 1.0, but it doesn't go to 0 immediately. All parts of MA are R below 0.9 and all age groups are trending way down. Hospitalizations are plummeting, after a brief spike by young people with B117. [/QUOTE]