COVID-19 herd immunity: where are we?

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...

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Autores principales: Fontanet, Arnaud, Cauchemez, Simon
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7480627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32908300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-00451-5
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spelling pubmed-74806272020-09-10 COVID-19 herd immunity: where are we? Fontanet, Arnaud Cauchemez, Simon Nat Rev Immunol Comment 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2020-09-09 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7480627/ /pubmed/32908300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41577-020-00451-5 Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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