SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Experts say we need to gain herd immunity to beat coronavirus, but how do they know? And why do they insist we need a vaccine to get it?
The answer is a true story that involves a woman milking a cow, an Egyptian mummy, and General George Washington.
He worried about one thing even more than the British: the smallpox disease they brought with them.
Smallpox killed way more of Washington's men than the war itself, and solving herd immunity was key to the U.S. victory over Britain, according to many researchers and historians.
Take a couple of fun minutes to learn this fascinating true story in the short true cartoon above.
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