Dynamics of population immunity due to the herd Effect in the COVID-19 pandemic
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2020
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Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
Hormeño-Holgado, Alberto
Jiménez, Manuel
Benitez-Agudelo, Juan Camilo
Navarro-Jiménez, Eduardo
Perez-Palencia, Natalia
Maestre-Serrano, Ronald
Laborde-Cárdenas, Carmen Cecilia
Tornero-Aguilera, Jose Francisco
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The novel Coronavirus 2 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-Cov-2) has led to the
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which has surprised health authorities around
the world, quickly producing a global health crisis. Different actions to cope with this situation are
being developed, including confinement, different treatments to improve symptoms, and the
creation of the first vaccines. In epidemiology, herd immunity is presented as an area that could also
solve this new global threat. In this review, we present the basis of herd immunology, the dynamics
of infection transmission that induces specific immunity, and how the application of
immunoepidemiology and herd immunology could be used to control the actual COVID-19
pandemic, along with a discussion of its effectiveness, limitations, and applications.
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SARS-Cov-2, COVID-19, Herd immunology, Vaccines, Pandemic, Epidemiology