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“Don’t Look Up” Your Science—Herd Immunity or Herd Mentality?
Microorganisms, 2022 This analysis piece will attempt to examine some of the critical pandemic-related measures implemented in the United States from an immunological perspective and pinpoint caveats that should have been considered before their implementation.
Botond Z. Igyártó
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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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PLoS ONE, 2022 With limited availability of vaccines, an efficient use of the limited supply of vaccines in order to achieve herd immunity will be an important tool to combat the wide-spread prevalence of COVID-19. Here, we compare a selection of strategies for vaccine
André Voigt, Stig Omholt, Eivind Almaas
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Investigating vaccine-induced immunity and its effect in mitigating SARS-CoV-2 epidemics in China
BMC Medicine, 2022 Background To allow a return to a pre-COVID-19 lifestyle, virtually every country has initiated a vaccination program to mitigate severe disease burden and control transmission. However, it remains to be seen whether herd immunity will be within reach of
Hengcong Liu +14 more
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COVID-19: individual and herd immunity
Comptes Rendus Biologies, 2021 Immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus ensures protection against reinfection by this virus thanks to the combined action of neutralizing antibodies and T lymphocytes specific to viral proteins, in particular the Spike protein.
Bach, Jean-François +4 more
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Herd immunity by infection is not an option [PDF]
Science, 2021 Difficult lessons are learned from a largely uncontrolled COVID-19 epidemic in Manaus ...
Sridhar, Devi, Gurdasani, Deepti
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Global control of COVID-19: good vaccines may not suffice
Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic has unveiled health and socioeconomic inequities around the globe. Effective epidemic control requires the achievement of herd immunity, where susceptible individuals are conferred indirect protection by being surrounded by ...
Javier Eslava-Schmalbach +2 more
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EClinicalMedicine, 2020 Background: Low vaccine uptake results in regular outbreaks of severe diseases, such as measles. Selective mandates, e.g. making measles vaccination mandatory (as currently implemented in Germany), could offer a viable solution to the problem.
Philipp Sprengholz, Cornelia Betsch
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A benefit–cost analysis of different response scenarios to COVID‐19: A case study
Health Science Reports, 2021 Background This paper compares the direct benefits to the State of Western Australia from employing a “suppression” policy response to the COVID‐19 pandemic rather than a “herd immunity” approach.
David C. Cook +2 more
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Herd immunity in COVID-19: Needs de-emphasizing
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2022 Despite the evolving science on Covid-19 pointing to the contrary, the concept of Herd immunity continues to influence decision making in this pandemic.
Sunil Kumar Raina, Raman Kumar
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