The study indicates that even the hardest-hit area in the study — New York City, where nearly 1 in 4 people has been exposed to the virus — is nowhere near achieving herd immunity
Pedestrians on West 34th Street in Manhattan on Saturday, July 18, 2020. Even the hardest hit areas of the U.S., like New York City, are far from numbers approaching herd immunity to the coronavirus.
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