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    Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or mass immunity) is a form of indirect protection that applies only...
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    WHO said that the herd immunity component of the proposed strategy is undermined by the unknown duration of post-infection immunity. They said that the...
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    advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through widespread infection, while promoting the fringe notion that...
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    {\displaystyle 1-1/R_{0}} . This is the so-called Herd immunity threshold or herd immunity level. Here, herd immunity means that the disease cannot spread in the...
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  • infection virulence If the proportion of the population that is immune exceeds the herd immunity level for the disease, then the disease can no longer persist...
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    advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through infection before vaccines became available, while promoting...
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    factors including a decline in herd immunity, nosocomial infections, virulence, viral load, misdiagnosis, airflow dynamics, immune suppression, and co-infection...
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    of most of the scientific community, Atlas recommended establishing herd immunity by allowing or encouraging low-risk people to get COVID-19 while attempting...
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    expensive and easier to administer, and can spread immunity beyond the person vaccinated, creating contact immunity. It has been the predominant vaccine used....
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    coronavirus herd immunity approach 'nonsense, very dangerous'". Fox News. Retrieved October 17, 2020. Hellmann, Jessie (October 15, 2020). "Fauci blasts herd immunity...
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