g-f(2)129 THE BIG PICTURE OF THE DIGITAL AGE, WSJ, Marty Makary, We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April.

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• Amid the dire Covid warnings, one crucial fact has been largely ignored: Cases are down 77% over the past six weeks. 
• If a medication slashed cases by 77%, we’d call it a miracle pill. Why is the number of cases plummeting much faster than experts predicted?
• In large part because natural immunity from prior infection is far more common than can be measured by testing.
• Applying a time-weighted case capture average of 1 in 6.5 to the cumulative 28 million confirmed cases would mean about 55% of Americans have natural immunity.
• Former Food and Drug Commissioner Scott Gottlieb estimates 250 million doses will have been delivered to some 150 million people by the end of March.
• There is reason to think the country is racing toward an extremely low level of infection. 
• At the current trajectory, I expect Covid will be mostly gone by April, allowing Americans to resume normal life.

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• Dr. Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, chief medical adviser to Sesame Care, and author of “The Price We Pay.”
• My prediction that Covid-19 will be mostly gone by April is based on laboratory data, mathematical data, published literature and conversations with experts. 
• Herd immunity has been well-documented in the Brazilian city of Manaus, where researchers in the Lancet reported the prevalence of prior Covid-19 infection to be 76%, resulting in a significant slowing of the infection. 

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We’ll Have Herd Immunity by April, Marty Makary, February 18, 2021, The Wall Street Journal, WSJ. 

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Dr. Marty Makary is a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health, chief medical adviser to Sesame Care, and author of “The Price We Pay.”

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Martin "Marty" Makary is an American surgeon, New York Times bestselling author, and Johns Hopkins health policy expert. 

• He has written for The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME, Newsweek, and CNN, and appears on NBC and Fox News. 
• He is the author of The Price We Pay, a book about how business leaders and families can lower their health care costs and the grass-roots movement to restore medicine to its mission. 
• Dr. Makary practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and teaches public health policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. 
• Makary works in health care innovation, quality measurement science, frail and vulnerable populations, and public health disparities. 
• He served in leadership roles at the United Nations World Health Organization for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative. 
• Makary was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by Health Magazine. 
• In 2018, Makary was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.