Timeliness and obsolescence of herd immunity threshold estimates in the COVID-19 pandemic

Gomes, M. Gabriela M. (2021) Timeliness and obsolescence of herd immunity threshold estimates in the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Health. ISSN 1476-5616 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.09.036)

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Abstract

The term "herd immunity" has been widely used and abused during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most singularly, the "herd immunity threshold", a technical concept essential to the understanding of an epidemic, was hijacked early in the pandemic, and disseminated with all sorts of distortions, misrepresentations and misunderstandings that prevented the impact of its application by those qualified.

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  Item type:	Article
  ID code:	78244
  Dates:	Date Event 5 October 2021 Published 5 October 2021 Published Online 27 September 2021 Accepted
  Subjects:	Medicine > Public aspects of medicine > Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
  Department:	Faculty of Science > Mathematics and Statistics
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	21 Oct 2021 11:17
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 13:16
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/78244