Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike says the cost of trying to establish COVID-19 herd immunity is too great.
Dr. Ezike says so far…5-10% of Illinoisans have tested positive for the virus…which has already resulted in more than 10,000 deaths. She says thousands more would likely die if a majority of the population were infected.
“That’s not a moral way to approach this to think we would sacrifice that many lives to get to this herd immunity.”
Ezike says they also don’t know what percentage of the population would have to be infected to eventually reach herd immunity and end the pandemic.
