Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic?

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the availability of several different new vaccines, their varying supply levels, effectiveness, and immunity duration across different ethnic populations, together with natural infection rates, will have an impact on when each country can reach herd immunity (rang...

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Autores principales: KWOK, Kin On, MCNEIL, Edward B, TSOI, Margaret Ting Fong, WEI, Vivian Wan In, WONG, Samuel Yeung Shan, TANG, Julian Wei Tze
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34118274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.007
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MCNEIL, Edward B
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WONG, Samuel Yeung Shan
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description As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the availability of several different new vaccines, their varying supply levels, effectiveness, and immunity duration across different ethnic populations, together with natural infection rates, will have an impact on when each country can reach herd immunity (ranging from 15.3% to 77.1%). Here we estimate the population proportions still required to gain immunity (ranging from 0.01% to 48.8%) to reach an overall herd immunity level to stop the exponential virus spread in 32 selected countries.
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spelling pubmed-81897332021-06-10 Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic? KWOK, Kin On MCNEIL, Edward B TSOI, Margaret Ting Fong WEI, Vivian Wan In WONG, Samuel Yeung Shan TANG, Julian Wei Tze J Infect Letter to the Editor As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the availability of several different new vaccines, their varying supply levels, effectiveness, and immunity duration across different ethnic populations, together with natural infection rates, will have an impact on when each country can reach herd immunity (ranging from 15.3% to 77.1%). Here we estimate the population proportions still required to gain immunity (ranging from 0.01% to 48.8%) to reach an overall herd immunity level to stop the exponential virus spread in 32 selected countries. The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-09 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8189733/ /pubmed/34118274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.007 Text en © 2021 The British Infection Association. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. 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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Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic?
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title_fullStr Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic?
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title_short Will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the COVID-19 pandemic?
title_sort will achieving herd immunity be a road to success to end the covid-19 pandemic?
topic Letter to the Editor
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8189733/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34118274
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.007
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