Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
I’d only ever heard the 70% mentioned by the President. If it’s not an across-the-board stat, who does it apply to?
70% is a guess as to how many people need to be in inoculated before the spread of the virus will steadily decrease. We will only know the actual number once we hit it and case counts steadily and mostly continually fall. It won’t happen uniformly across the country because different areas will have different levels of vaccination.

As new more infectious variants continue to develop the number of vaccinated people needed to have herd immunity will increase.