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Impact of Microbiota: A Paradigm for Evolving Herd Immunity against Viral Diseases
Viruses, 2020 Herd immunity is the most critical and essential prophylactic intervention that delivers protection against infectious diseases at both the individual and community level.
Asha Shelly +5 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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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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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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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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Achieving COVID‐19 herd immunity in Rwanda, Africa
Public Health Challenges, 2023 The COVID‐19 pandemic has caused significant disruption to global healthcare systems, including Rwanda's. Rwanda has taken measured actions in response to the pandemic using a multisectoral and one‐government approach.
Theogene Uwizeyimana +5 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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Road to achieving COVID‐19 herd immunity in Niger Republic: Challenges and recommendations
Public Health Challenges, 2022 COVID‐19 pandemic has had tremendous impact on countries across the world and Niger Republic is not left out of the ravaging impact of the virus. The rapid dissemination of the virus across the globe has led to the development of safe and efficacious ...
Sil‐Ana Salissou Abdou +4 more
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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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