The potential for vaccination-induced herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.7 variant

We assess the feasibility of reaching the herd immunity threshold against SARS-CoV-2 through vaccination, considering vaccine effectiveness (VE), transmissibility of the virus and the level of pre-existing immunity in populations, as well as their age structure. If highly transmissible variants of c...

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Autores principales: Hodgson, David, Flasche, Stefan, Jit, Mark, Kucharski, Adam J, Abbott, Sam, Edmunds, W John, Davies, Nicholas G., Eggo, Rosalind M, Medley, Graham, Lei, Jiayao, Liu, Yang, Tully, Damien C, McCarthy, Ciara V, Mee, Paul, Endo, Akira, Hellewell, Joel, Funk, Sebastian, Jombart, Thibaut, Jafari, Yalda, Brady, Oliver, Prem, Kiesha, Krauer, Fabienne, Koltai, Mihaly, Waterlow, Naomi R, Russell, Timothy W, Meakin, Sophie R, O'Reilly, Kathleen, Bosse, Nikos I, Waites, William, Nightingale, Emily S, Lowe, Rachel, Chan, Yung-Wai Desmond, Atkins, Katherine E., Quilty, Billy J, Sandmann, Frank G, van Zandvoort, Kevin, Villabona-Arenas, C Julian, Gibbs, Hamish P, Munday, James D, Foss, Anna M, Gimma, Amy, Pearson, Carl A B, Barnard, Rosanna C, Quaife, Matthew, Sun, Fiona Yueqian, Rosello, Alicia, Pung, Rachael, Jarvis, Christopher I, Finch, Emilie, Abbas, Kaja, Clifford, Samuel, Knight, Gwenan M, Procter, Simon R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2021
Materias:
Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8138959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34018481
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2021.26.20.2100428

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