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Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19
The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel, infectious pathogen on a susceptible population. Here, we explain the basic concepts of herd immunity and discuss its implications i...
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Elsevier Inc.
2020
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32433946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.012 |
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| author | Randolph, Haley E. Barreiro, Luis B. |
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| description | The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel, infectious pathogen on a susceptible population. Here, we explain the basic concepts of herd immunity and discuss its implications in the context of COVID-19. |
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| spelling | pubmed-72367392020-05-19 Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 Randolph, Haley E. Barreiro, Luis B. Immunity Primer The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel, infectious pathogen on a susceptible population. Here, we explain the basic concepts of herd immunity and discuss its implications in the context of COVID-19. Elsevier Inc. 2020-05-19 2020-05-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7236739/ /pubmed/32433946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.012 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Inc. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
| spellingShingle | Primer Randolph, Haley E. Barreiro, Luis B. Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title | Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title_full | Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title_short | Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19 |
| title_sort | herd immunity: understanding covid-19 |
| topic | Primer |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7236739/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32433946 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2020.04.012 |
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