{"id":343162,"date":"2020-04-09T16:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=343162"},"modified":"2020-04-10T16:06:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T20:06:43","slug":"stanford-researchers-looking-at-herd-immunity-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/09\/stanford-researchers-looking-at-herd-immunity-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Researchers Looking at Herd Immunity in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Now, I wanted to go audio sound bite number 1, audio sound bite number 2. Let me make sure I have the appropriate story. (I\u2019ve got so many Stacks of Stuff<\/a> here.) Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yep. Here we go. Okay. Audio sound bite number 1. This is March 31st — so, about ten days ago — me here on the EIB Network.<\/a><\/p>\n

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RUSH ARCHIVE: I\u2019m not a doctor, and I\u2019m gonna make sure that I am just speaking as a layman here, but it could well be that so many Californians have been exposed to this virus — you know, 5,000 to 7,000 Chinese arrive at California airports every day. You go back and count that up, add it up from December, January, February, what if the people of California have somehow been made immune to it because they\u2019ve been exposed to the virus and don\u2019t have it or found a way to fight it off. It\u2019s a gigantic question. California ought to be the epicenter.<\/p>\n

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It ought to be ground zero of infection, and it isn\u2019t. Now, the governor clearly says it\u2019s coming. Governor Newsom and the mayor of Los Angeles both say it\u2019s coming, so it may be premature to be commenting on this. But the disparity here in the number of cases and the number of deaths and the number of hospitalizations in California versus, say, New York and some states on the East Coast is striking.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Exactly — and herd immunity is the virus arrives, and nobody knows it. Nobody knows it exists. We\u2019re talking about perhaps even last October, November, December. It arrives from China via travelers, and people get sick, and there\u2019s no word about coronavirus. There\u2019s nothing out there to scare people. They just get sick. It\u2019s a respiratory virus.<\/p>\n

They think it\u2019s the flu, they think it\u2019s the cold, depending on how bad it is. Some people go to the hospital with it; get checked out. Maybe some people perish. We don\u2019t know because there were no stats. If they perished, I\u2019m sure it was chalked up to the flu. In the meantime, all these people, a lot of people get it with no symptoms. This we know.<\/p>\n

We know that 98% of the people who get coronavirus recover. So this creates massive immunity to it. The more people who get it and survive it, creating antibodies, passing it along, then you have… this is what\u2019s called herd immunity. Dr. Fauci has spoken out specifically against herd immunity as a solution. But it was posited by me and also the brilliant Victor Davis Hanson, who lives in California.<\/p>\n

It was posited that herd immunity is a much more logical explanation for why the numbers in California are so low as opposed to (chuckles) a two-day head start on social distancing over New York. Come on! Here is me, last Thursday on this program, discussing why I thought California\u2019s rate of coronavirus infections was so much lower than New York\u2019s…<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: Let me just tell you what I think it is. I\u2019m a layman. I\u2019m just telling you what I think. I\u2019m not a medical guy. I\u2019m not telling you with ontological certitude. I think it is herd immunity that took place in California in December. A lot of people had something; they didn\u2019t know what it was. It wasn\u2019t flu. They lived through it. They got past it. That\u2019s what I think happened in California.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RUSH: Dadelut, dadelut, dadelut, dadelut, dadelut, dadelut from the San Francisco Chronicle: “Study Investigates if COVID-19 Came to California in the Fall of 2019<\/a> — If so, the state may have built up some herd immunity. Researchers at Stanford Medicine…” That\u2019s an august facility. It is highly accepted and revered. It\u2019s not a quack operation, in other words.<\/p>\n

“Researchers at Stanford Medicine are working on a hypothesis that the coronavirus first started spreading in California in the fall, which could explain the state\u2019s low case numbers.” The article also mentions that California “instituted social distancing before New York did, but just two days prior.” It cannot be the explanation.<\/p>\n

The researchers from Stanford are doing antibody tests in the Bay Area, but they won\u2019t get the results for weeks. They seem to believe that the lower case numbers are due to herd immunity. Now, if that\u2019s the case, it would mean that a lot of you in California have had the coronavirus and didn\u2019t know it. You either were asymptomatic… There are a lot of people who get infected that have no symptoms.<\/p>\n

Your immune system handles it somehow. There are people who get it and think it\u2019s the flu. It has similar characteristics because it\u2019s a respiratory disease; it affects the lungs. In some cases, it replicates pneumonia in certain patients, which is an infection of the lung. But the psychology here is: If you don\u2019t know there\u2019s a killer virus out there and you get it, then you don\u2019t know that you\u2019ve gotten a killer virus.<\/p>\n

You just think you\u2019ve gotten sick, and getting sick is what happens to all of us routinely. Some, every year. Some, every other year. Some of us, you never know. But you get sick and you deal with it. If it\u2019s really bad, you go to the ER. If it\u2019s really, really bad, they put you in the hospital. Most people deal with it at home, and they go in the grocery store or the drugstore and they buy over-the-counter medication to try to make themselves feel better.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know that there\u2019s a killer disease out there and you get it, you\u2019re not going to think you\u2019re going to die, and you\u2019re not gonna act like you think you\u2019re gonna. You\u2019re not gonna act like it if you don\u2019t know it. I think a lot of people have had coronavirus and didn\u2019t know it. They have had it a lot sooner than we became aware of it — especially in California and, I think, also in Oregon.<\/p>\n

Now, it takes, supposedly — these are medical stats. It takes two-thirds of a population to be infected before you reach herd immunity, and Victor Davis Hanson is quoted throughout this article<\/a> in the San Francisco Chronicle. He\u2019s actually the first to posit the theory that herd immunity is the explanation for California. Now, I\u2019m just gonna tell you: The experts at the briefings and the governor of California are gonna fight this.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re gonna do everything they can to make people think that herd immunity didn\u2019t happen, couldn\u2019t have happened. It\u2019s the worst thing. Social distancing! That is the order of the day. Social distancing! That is what is going to be used as any explanation for any success in lowering the death toll. This whole notion of herd immunity is gonna be fought by people whom it doesn\u2019t help politically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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