Thirtysomething“We don’t see population saturation through casual respiratory transmission very often. Flu often peaks at 10 to 20 percent of the population as do other common respiratory viruses. There really is only one comparison in the last 100 years where we had 30-40% saturation, and that’s the 1918-19 influenza pandemic.”
- Dr. Sten Vermund, Dean of Yale School of Public Health
“Cases are way down in the U.S. North East. In New York probably 30% of the population has been infected, so the transmission rate is going to be less because you now have more people that have some level of immunity.”
Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration