- Published
- 05 October 2021
- Letter
Timeliness and obsolescence of herd immunity threshold estimates in the COVID-19 pandemic
- Authors
- Source
- Public Health
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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© 2021 The Royal Society for Public Health. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Gomes, M. 2021, 'Timeliness and obsolescence of herd immunity threshold estimates in the COVID-19 pandemic', Public Health, 205, pp. e3-e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2021.09.036
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