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Digital Herd Immunity and COVID-19 [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical Biology, 2020
A population can be immune to epidemics even if not all of its individual members are immune to the disease, just as long as sufficiently many are immune—this is the traditional notion of herd immunity. In the smartphone era a population can be immune to epidemics even if not a single one of its members is immune to
Vir B Bulchandani   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Herd immunity and a vaccination game: An experimental study.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
Would the affected communities voluntarily obtain herd immunity if a cure for COVID-19 was available? This paper experimentally investigates people's vaccination choices in the context of a nonlinear public good game.
Wooyoung Lim, Pengfei Zhang
doaj   +1 more source

Infection-Immunity Competition: A Simple Model for Illustrating the Background of Individual Response on Herd Immunity

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
For achieving herd immunity, the proportion of individuals who are immunized, and the proportion of susceptible individuals are normally regarded as the key factors.
Johann Michael Köhler
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Herd Immunity Against Strategic Attackers

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2020
Herd immunity, one of the most fundamental concepts in network epidemics, occurs when a large fraction of the population of devices is immune against a virus or malware.
Vilc Queupe Rufino   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predicting Directions of Changes in Genotype Proportions Between Norovirus Seasons in Japan

open access: yesFrontiers in Microbiology, 2019
The norovirus forecasting system (NOROCAST) has been developed for predicting directions of changes in genotype proportions between human norovirus (HuNoV) seasons in Japan through modeling herd immunity to structural protein 1 (VP1).
Yoshiyuki Suzuki   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pneumococcal Vaccination in Adults: A Narrative Review of Considerations for Individualized Decision-Making

open access: yesVaccines, 2023
Pneumococcal disease remains one of the major causes of severe disease in both children and adults. Severe disease may be prevented by pneumococcal polysaccharide and conjugate vaccines, which currently cover more than 20 serotypes.
Kay Choong See
doaj   +1 more source

ETHICS OF VACCINATION IN CHILDHOOD

open access: yesSlovenska pediatrija, 2021
In countries with well-established immunisation programmes, vaccination is the ‘victim of its own success’, because the low incidence of diseases prevented by vaccines has diminished the experience of their historical burdens and hence the obvious benefit
Meta Rus, Urh Grošelj
doaj   +1 more source

Herd immunity and COVID-19 in Indonesia

open access: yesJurnal Teknologi Laboratorium, 2020
Herd immunity or herd effect is a phenomenon that occurs in groups of people who are resistant to disease. The purpose of conducting this research is to predict the number of cumulative cases of COVID-19 in Indonesia. Covid-19 cases in Indonesia on April
Imam Agus Faizal, Nur Ariska Nugrahani
doaj   +1 more source

The status of herd immunity to measles in Russia: A systematic review and meta-analysis of epidemiological studies

open access: yesЖурнал микробиологии, эпидемиологии и иммунобиологии, 2020
Introduction. The comprehensive assessment of the herd immunity to measles in Russia can be challenging, as Russian subject-related studies tend to focus on seroprevalence in various cohorts of different sizes.
Anna V. Nozdracheva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The fallacy of herd immunity

open access: yes, 2022
Number of pages: 9.
Hernandez-Suarez C.
europepmc   +3 more sources

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