You may have heard the statement, “We can’t eradicate a virus if we don’t achieve herd immunity.” The concept sounds simple, ...
In other words, someone who's infected can pass it on to somebody else. Herd immunity is a really important concept, and it's pretty simple. It refers to the percentage of a community or a ...
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead the National Institutes of Health — an agency under the ...
Vaccines have saved 174 million lives over the past 50 years, according to the Dec. 17 story “The most comprehensive modeling analysis of historical vaccine impact,” in the highly respected medical ...
In England and Wales, MCC vaccine programs resulted in substantial herd immunity, as shown by reductions in serogroup C carriage prevalence and serogroup C disease in unvaccinated individuals.
The “herd immunity” concept was criticized by Director-General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Allowing a dangerous virus that we don’t fully understand to ...