Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity

Population-level herd immunity is critical for long-term control of SARS-CoV-2. However, proposals to reach the herd immunity threshold through naturally acquired infection, rather than vaccination, have complicated public health efforts and popularized policies that will lead to widespread transmis...

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Autor principal: Rasmussen, Angela L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33521750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.004
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description Population-level herd immunity is critical for long-term control of SARS-CoV-2. However, proposals to reach the herd immunity threshold through naturally acquired infection, rather than vaccination, have complicated public health efforts and popularized policies that will lead to widespread transmission and mortality. Vaccination is the only viable path to herd immunity.
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spelling pubmed-78317532021-01-26 Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity Rasmussen, Angela L. Med (N Y) Commentary Population-level herd immunity is critical for long-term control of SARS-CoV-2. However, proposals to reach the herd immunity threshold through naturally acquired infection, rather than vaccination, have complicated public health efforts and popularized policies that will lead to widespread transmission and mortality. Vaccination is the only viable path to herd immunity. Elsevier Inc. 2020-12-18 2020-12-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7831753/ /pubmed/33521750 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.004 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.
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Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title_full Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title_fullStr Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title_full_unstemmed Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title_short Vaccination Is the Only Acceptable Path to Herd Immunity
title_sort vaccination is the only acceptable path to herd immunity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7831753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33521750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.medj.2020.12.004
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