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COVID-19 herd immunity: where are we?
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Herd immunity is a key concept for epidemic control. It states that only a proportion of a population needs to be immune (through overcoming natural infection or through vaccination) to an infectious agent for it to stop generating large outbreaks. A key question in the current COVID-19 pandemic is how and when herd immunity can be achieved and at what cost. During the current COVID-19 pandemic, the concept of herd immunity has become a topic of much debate. This Comment examines the factors that determine it, discusses how far we have come and considers what it will take to reach herd immunity safely.
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- Authors
- Fontanet, A., & Cauchemez, S.
- Venue
- Nature Reviews Immunology
- Published
- 2020-09-09
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 583-584
- ISSN
- 1474-1733 (ISSN-L)
- 1474-1741
- OpenAlex
- W3083820245
- Cited by
- 537
- References
- 10
- FWCI
- 18.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
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