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CRISPR-based herd immunity can limit phage epidemics in bacterial populations
eLife, 2018 Herd immunity, a process in which resistant individuals limit the spread of a pathogen among susceptible hosts has been extensively studied in eukaryotes.
Pavel Payne +3 more
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Impact of vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic in U.S. states
Scientific Reports, 2022 Governments worldwide are implementing mass vaccination programs in an effort to end the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Here, we evaluated the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination program in its early stage and predicted the path to herd ...
Xiao Chen +4 more
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Ethics of Vaccination in Childhood—A Framework Based on the Four Principles of Biomedical Ethics
Vaccines, 2021 Although vaccination is recognised as the top public health achievement of the twentieth century, unequivocal consensus about its beneficence does not exist among the general population.
Meta Rus, Urh Groselj
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Will an imperfect vaccine curtail the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S.?
Infectious Disease Modelling, 2020 The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that emerged from Wuhan city of China in late December 2019 continue to pose devastating public health and economic challenges across the world.
Enahoro A. Iboi +2 more
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Evolution of herd SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity in the Republic of Belarus
Инфекция и иммунитет, 2023 Background. The course of the COVID-19 epidemic process depends on population immunity which prevents pathogen spread. Aim: to study an evolution of SARS-CoV-2 humoral immunity in the Belarusian population rela- tive to COVID-19 pandemic dynamics ...
Anna Yu. Popova +23 more
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Elementi metodologici per una riflessione sui dati dell’epidemia di sars-cov-2
Giornale di Clinica Nefrologia e Dialisi, 2020 Findings of the seroprevalence survey conducted by Istat between May 25 and July 15 2020, on a sample of 64,660 people, show that only 2.5% of Italian people developed antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, a prevalence very far from the hypothesis of achieving herd ...
Anteo Di Napoli +2 more
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Great Expectations of COVID-19 Herd Immunity
mBio, 2022 There is a common preconception that reaching an estimated herd immunity threshold through vaccination will end the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the mathematical models underpinning this estimate make numerous assumptions that may not be met in the real ...
Luca T. Giurgea, David M. Morens
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"Herd Immunity": A Rough Guide [PDF]
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2011 The term "herd immunity" is widely used but carries a variety of meanings. Some authors use it to describe the proportion immune among individuals in a population. Others use it with reference to a particular threshold proportion of immune individuals that should lead to a decline in incidence of infection.
Paul, Fine, Ken, Eames, David L, Heymann
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R0 of COVID-19 and its impact on vaccination coverage: compared with previous outbreaks
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021 Background: Vaccination has been known to reduce morbidity and mortality of infectious diseases since the emergence of the 1st vaccine in the 18th century. That’s why global efforts are directed toward finding a vaccine for COVID-19 in order to eliminate
Mohamed Elsaid +2 more
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