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The herd-immunity threshold must be updated for multi-vaccine strategies and multiple variants
Scientific Reports, 2021 Several vaccines with different efficacies and effectivenesses are currently being distributed across the world to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Having enough doses from the most efficient vaccines in a short time is not possible for all countries ...
Iraj Yadegari +2 more
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Herd Immunity and Measles [PDF]
Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials, 2015 The term “herd immunity” is an immunization concept that refers to a means of protecting a whole population from an infectious disease by immunizing a certain percent of a population. Measles is a highly contagious infectious disease.
Ferit KUŞÇU, Emin Ediz TÜTÜNCÜ
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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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Percentages of Vaccination Coverage Required to Establish Herd Immunity against SARS-CoV-2
Vaccines, 2022 The pandemic associated with SARS-CoV-2 is a worldwide public health challenge. The WHO has proposed to achieve 70% COVID-19 vaccination coverage in all countries by mid-2022.
P. Plans-Rubió
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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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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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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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Challenges of vaccination and herd immunity in COVID‐19 and management strategies
Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2022 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), the highly contagious viral disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has spread worldwide with millions of cases and more than 5 million deaths to date.
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