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Vaccination and herd immunity thresholds in heterogeneous populations

It has been suggested, without rigorous mathematical analysis, that the classical vaccine-induced herd immunity threshold (HIT) assuming a homogeneous population can be substantially higher than the minimum HIT obtained when considering population heterogeneities. We investigated this claim by devel...

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Autores principales: Elbasha, Elamin H., Gumel, Abba B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8651979/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34878609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00285-021-01686-z