Herd Immunity and Implications for SARS-CoV-2 Control

JAMA. 2020 Nov 24;324(20):2095-2096. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.20892.

Authors

Saad B Omer^{1

2}, Inci Yildirim^{1

3}, Howard P Forman^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Yale Institute for Global Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Departments of Internal Medicine and Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale Schools of Medicine and Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Section of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, Department of Pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Yale School of Management, New Haven, Connecticut.

PMID: 33074293
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2020.20892

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adaptive Immunity
Basic Reproduction Number
COVID-19 / immunology*
COVID-19 / prevention & control*
Humans
Immunity, Herd*
Pandemics*