The British ‘U-turn’ - yetis Herd Immunity still the solution to COVID 19?

Peter Bradshaw*

Herd immunity defines the level of protection from infectious diseases within a given population. It occurs naturally from exposure to a particular pathogen or, from vaccination against it. Against our understandings of this fundamental concept, the British Medical Journal reports on work published last month suggesting over half the UK population might already have been infected by coronavirus? [1]. If so, that ‘immune’ proportion may so well as to be entirely free from danger.

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Published on: Jun 10, 2020 Pages: 16-17

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