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The Concept of Classical Herd Immunity May Not Apply to COVID-19
Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2022 There has been speculation about when in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID19) pandemic we will be able to live with the virus in a manner that does not disrupt most peoples’ lives. Much of this discussion has focused on herd immunity thresholds (Box 1).
D. Morens, G. Folkers, A. Fauci
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Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19
Immunity, 2020 The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel, infectious pathogen on a susceptible population.
Haley E. Randolph, Luis B. Barreiro
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Вестник войск РХБ защиты, 2023 The Iran-Iraq war (1980–1988) was the first modern war in which chemical weapons were used. The purpose of this work is to summarize the experience of treating victims, affected by nerve agents. The publications of Iranian authors in different scientific
M. V. Supotnitskiy
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Shepherd: relations between shepherds and owners in North Khorasan [PDF]
Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2022 Undoubtedly, the most important task in traditional animal husbandry is the responsibility of the shepherd, because traditional animal husbandry is not possible without the shepherd. In recent years, shepherds, especially good shepherds, have become rare,
mohammad hossein papoli yazdi
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Science, 2020 Heterogeneity and herd immunity In response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), some politicians have been keen to exploit the idea of achieving herd immunity.
T. Britton, F. Ball, Pieter Trapman
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BMC Health Services Research, 2020 Background Evaluations of health interventions are increasingly concerned with measuring or accounting for ‘context’. How to do this is still subject to debate and testing, and is particularly important in the case of family planning where outcomes will ...
Cicely Marston +4 more
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COVID-19 herd immunity: where are we?
Nature reviews. Immunology, 2020 Herd immunity is a key concept for epidemic control. It states that only a proportion of a population needs to be immune (through overcoming natural infection or through vaccination) to an infectious agent for it to stop generating large outbreaks. A key
A. Fontanet, S. Cauchemez
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Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 lowers the herd immunity threshold
medRxiv, 2020 As severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spreads, the susceptible subpopulation is depleted causing the rate at which new cases occur to decline.
M. Gomes +9 more
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Herd culture and herd immunity
Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2022 Abstract Although communicable diseases affect our bodies, they occur in a society that interprets and gives them meaning. Herd immunity provides the body protection; however, long-term protection requires shifts in the way people interpret and respond to disease, cultural transformation that enables the development of the knowledge, habits and skills ...
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Journal of Algebra, 2009 The notion of a bimodule herd is introduced and studied. A bimodule herd consists of a $B$-$A$ bimodule, its formal dual, called a pen, and a map, called a shepherd, which satisfies untiality and coassociativity conditions. It is shown that every bimodule herd gives rise to a pair of corings and coactions.
Brzezi'nski, Tomasz, Vercruysse, Joost
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