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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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Understanding Herd Immunity [PDF]
Trends in Immunology, 2015 Individual immunity is a powerful force affecting host health and pathogen evolution. Importantly, the effects of individual immunity also scale up to affect pathogen transmission dynamics and the success of vaccination campaigns for entire host populations. Population-scale immunity is often termed 'herd immunity'.
Metcalf, C.J.E. +3 more
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COVID-19 and herd immunity [PDF]
Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, 2022 Herd immunity occurs when a large enough proportion of a population of humans or animals becomes immune to a disease in such a way as to make the spread of disease between members of the species involved unlikely.
J. Ashton
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Immunity in society: diverse solutions to common problems [PDF]
, 2012 Understanding how organisms fight infection has been a central focus of scientific research and medicine for the past couple of centuries, and a perennial object of trial and error by humans trying to mitigate the burden of disease.
Babayan, S.A., Schneider, D.S.
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Vaccines, 2020 Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) proposed two-dose measles vaccination coverage of at least 95% of the population and percentages of measles immunity in the population of 85%−95% in order to achieve measles elimination in Europe.
Pedro Plans-Rubió
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Public Health Challenges, 2023 The COVID‐19 pandemic has presented Algeria with a slew of issues, including major economic consequences. Despite implementing containment measures, the government has been unable to fully restrict the spread of the virus.
Chijioke Christopher Uhegwu +5 more
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Combating COVID-19 pandemic in India: Demystifying the concept of herd immunity
Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 The concept of Herd immunity is a key factor for epidemic control. According to it only a proportion of entire population needs to be immune either via natural infection or vaccination.
Neha Sharma +5 more
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SARS-CoV-2: from herd immunity to hybrid immunity
Nature reviews. Immunology, 2022 Herd immunity, where a pathogen can no longer efficiently spread in a population, is achieved when a large proportion of the population becomes immune, making the spread of infection from person to person unlikely and protecting those without immunity ...
D. Goldblatt
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Cervical Cancer Screening in Partly HPV Vaccinated Cohorts - A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Vaccination against the oncogenic human papillomavirus (HPV) types 16 and 18 will reduce the prevalence of these types, thereby also reducing cervical cancer risk in unvaccinated women.
Steffie K Naber +5 more
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A Modified Coronavirus Herd Immunity Optimizer for the Power Scheduling Problem
Mathematics, 2022 The Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO) is a new human-based optimization algorithm that imitates the herd immunity strategy to eliminate of the COVID-19 disease.
S. Makhadmeh +9 more
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