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Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2021 We investigated what proportion of the population acquired severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and whether the herd immunity threshold has been reached in 10 communities in Qatar.
A. Jeremijenko +30 more
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Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer with greedy crossover for feature selection in medical diagnosis
Knowledge-Based Systems, 2021 The importance of medical data and the crucial nature of the decisions that are based on such data, as well as the large increase in its volume, has encouraged researchers to develop feature selection (FS)-based approaches to identify the most relevant ...
Mohammed Alweshah +3 more
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Transmission-Blocking Vaccines: Harnessing Herd Immunity for Malaria Elimination
Expert Review of Vaccines, 2021 Introduction Transmission-blocking vaccines (TBV) prevent community spread of malaria by targeting mosquito sexual stage parasites, a life-cycle bottleneck, and will be used in elimination programs. TBV rely on herd immunity to reduce mosquito infections
P. Duffy
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Applied Soft Computing, 2021 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-2019) has spread rapidly all over the world and it is known that the most effective way to eliminate the disease is vaccination.
Pınar Cihan
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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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Inclusion of the value of herd immunity in economic evaluations of vaccines. A systematic review of methods used. [PDF]
, 2017 OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this review were to identify vaccine economic evaluations that include herd immunity and describe the methodological approaches used.
Enemark, Ulrika +4 more
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Core Concept: Herd immunity is an important—and often misunderstood—public health phenomenon
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 In December, Anthony Fauci predicted that 70 to 85% of the United States population may need to be vaccinated to achieve “herd immunity” against SARSCoV-2 (1). Yet he was very careful to qualify his comments. “We need to have some humility here,” he said
Amy McDermott
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Future research to underpin successful peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) eradication [PDF]
, 2017 Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) is a significant pathogen of small ruminants and is prevalent in much of Africa, the Near and Middle East and Asia.
Bouna Diop +10 more
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The Journal of the Economics of Ageing, 2021 Objectives To assess the economic burden of COVID-19 that would arise absent behavioral or policy responses under the herd immunity approach in the United States and compare it to the total burden that also accounts for estimates of the value of lives ...
Simiao Chen +3 more
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On Pediatric Vaccines and Catholic Social Teaching [PDF]
, 2018 Determining whether, and when, to get one\u27s children vaccinated has become an increasingly controversial decision, often leaving parents fearful of making the “wrong” choice.
Bilgrien +20 more
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