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A disease can be killed off (or massively reduced) via herd immunity without requiring all individuals to have been infected.
by maest 7y ago
A disease can be killed off (or massively reduced) via herd immunity without requiring all individuals to have been infected.
- nabla9 7y ago> killed off (or massively reduced) via herd immunity Natural herd immunity is the the end result of allowing infection to spread without limits. Only with vaccine you can create herd immunity without getting infected. For the next 12-18 months the only way to get immunity is enough people getting infected.
- op00to 7y agoYes - at a cost of many unnecessary, horribly painful and lonely deaths.
- learnstats2 7y agoYes - via a vaccine. The 'measles' wikipedia page is a good primer on how effective natural herd immunity is (clue: it isn't)