Herd Immunity: Understanding COVID-19

By Haley E. Randolph, Luis B. Barreiro. Immunity, 2020

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The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its associated disease, COVID-19, has demonstrated the devastating impact of a novel, infectious pathogen on a susceptible population. Here, we explain the basic concepts of herd immunity and discuss its implications in the context of COVID-19.

Subfields: Immunology, Infectious Diseases, Modeling and Simulation

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Citations in the corpus

• Factors Associated with COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy (2021, positive): “To achieve community-based immunity, over 70% of the population will need to be vaccinated [35,36], more than those who seem to be ready to accept such an intervention at this time according to our data.”
• Attitudes towards vaccines and intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: Implications for public health communications (2020, positive): “Achieving population immunity through natural means, or by allowing a large proportion of the population to become infected, would cause unprecedented strain on healthcare resources and could result in up to 30 million deaths worldwide [1].”