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Does the word "plausible" here mean "reliable/believable"?
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Small infectious-disease outbreaks are hard to detect, especially when governments and society are unprepared and untrained. To reduce outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), governments can act early and swiftly when the outbreak is small (Fig. 1), or are forced to respond late and harshly when the virus has furtively made good use of crowds, handshakes and door knobs. ..................................
The only plausible way to achieve herd immunity is through mass vaccination. This will take longer that many expect because the time needed to carefully test a vaccine (which requires regions with ongoing outbreaks) and to produce billions of doses of it (a risky early investment) cannot be massively shortened.
-from Nature 13 May 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0567-0
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Small infectious-disease outbreaks are hard to detect, especially when governments and society are unprepared and untrained. To reduce outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), governments can act early and swiftly when the outbreak is small (Fig. 1), or are forced to respond late and harshly when the virus has furtively made good use of crowds, handshakes and door knobs. ..................................
The only plausible way to achieve herd immunity is through mass vaccination. This will take longer that many expect because the time needed to carefully test a vaccine (which requires regions with ongoing outbreaks) and to produce billions of doses of it (a risky early investment) cannot be massively shortened.
-from Nature 13 May 2020
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0567-0
