But are people really putting themselves at risk or are they doing something beneficial for the country, causing herd immunity? Fox News spoke with Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious disease physician and senior scholar for Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who says mass gatherings won’t help herd immunity anytime soon. NYU DOCTOR URGES HEALTHCARE WORKERS TO USE THESE PREPARATIONS FOR SECOND WAVE OF CORONAVIRUS“It's very hard to achieve herd immunity levels. It's estimated that we need to probably have about 60 percent of the population infected to cross that immunity threshold [for the coronavirus],” Adalja told Fox News. “And that's going to be something that's different for each individual based on their personal risk tolerance.”

Source: Fox News June 10, 2020 15:00 UTC