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. 2020 Sep 19;396(10254):810-811.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3.

A history of herd immunity

David Jones¹, Stefan Helmreich²

Affiliations

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¹ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: dsjones@harvard.edu.
² MIT Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

PMID: 32950081
PMCID: PMC7498207
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3

A history of herd immunity

David Jones et al. Lancet. 2020.

. 2020 Sep 19;396(10254):810-811.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3.

Authors

David Jones¹, Stefan Helmreich²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: dsjones@harvard.edu.
² MIT Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

PMID: 32950081
PMCID: PMC7498207
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3

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None — “Frontispiece, no. 1. The human herd: Greenwich Hospital Schoolboys at dinner” in Active Immunization Against Diphtheria: its Effect on the Distribution of Antitoxic Immunity and Case and Carrier Infection (1934) by Sheldon F Dudley, Percival M May, and Joseph A O'Flynn

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Herd immunity confusion.
Medley GF. Medley GF. Lancet. 2020 Nov 21;396(10263):1634-1635. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)32167-X. Epub 2020 Oct 22. Lancet. 2020. PMID: 33228920 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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