Herd Immunity & All You Need to Know 🙋‍♂ | Fight Against COVID-19

Herd Immunity (also known as community immunity) is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as “a situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely.”

In other words, where herd immunity exists—when lots of people in an area are vaccinated or have already been infected with a disease—fewer people get sick, and fewer germs are able to spread from person to person.

The CDC adds that even people who are not vaccinated, like newborn babies and individuals with chronic illnesses, have some level of protection because the disease can’t spread within the community.

A short presentation by
Dhruv Malhotra (THE_DOC_IN_SUIT)
Kyiv Medical University (KhIM)
3rd Course