And here it is: >**With just 58.5% of all Americans 12 and up fully vaccinated, “we do need to increase” the uptake of COVID-19 shots**, said Brooks, chief medical officer of Watts Healthcare in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, he said, Jones’ unexpected admission “almost makes you less motivated to get more people vaccinated.” >Since the earliest days of the pandemic, there has been one collective goal for bringing it to an end: **achieving herd immunity**. That’s when so many people are immune to a virus that it runs out of potential hosts to infect, causing an outbreak to sputter out. >**Many Americans embraced the novel farmyard phrase, and with it, the projection that once 70% to 80% or 85% of the population was vaccinated against COVID-19, the virus would go away and the pandemic would be over.** I believe that was with natural immunity and the government said those numbers with vaccines which don’t work. How many Spanish flu cases do we still get a year?