LANCASTER, Pa. - Medical experts are debating whether an Amish and Mennonites community in Lancaster County has achieved herd immunity from the COVID-19 after a local medical center reported nearly every household had at least one case in 2020.Experts at a New Holland borough healthcare center said around 90 percent of households dealt with at least one coronavirus case after churches reopened last year.
They said those households are now immune."So, you would think if COVID was as contagious as they say, it would go through like a tsunami; and it did," said Allen Hoover, an Old Order Mennonite and administrator of the Parochial Medical Center, a clinic that primarily serves the Plain community.MORE: CDC director concerned over rising.