Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 11 August 2021

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1. Herd immunity ‘mythical’ says professor

Achieving Covid herd immunity is “not a possibility” with the current Delta variant, the head of the Oxford Vaccine Group has said. Speaking to MPs, Professor Sir Andrew Pollard said the fact that vaccines did not stop the spread of Covid meant reaching the threshold for overall immunity in the population was “mythical”. He said it was inevitable that “anyone who’s still unvaccinated at some point will meet the virus”.

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