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Collected Item: “The Diminishing Hope of COVID-19 Herd Immunity”

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The Diminishing Hope of COVID-19 Herd Immunity

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Instagram post

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This is an Instagram post from infectious_disease_modeler (Dr. Jacob B. Aguilar).He wrote an article about how herd immunity doesn't work with COVID as well as it could due to new variants that keep on happening. He says that if vaccines had a 100% effectiveness rates across all situations, this would not really be an issue. Since the vaccines are not entirely effective, the solution, Dr. Aguilar proposes that the way to help mitigate the issue is mass regular testing to slow the spread of new variants.

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science, herd immunity, vaccine, testing, spread, infection, asymptomatic spread, HST580, ASU

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https://thepavlovictoday.com/the-diminishing-hope-of-covid-19-herd-immunity/

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Dr. Jacob B. Aguilar

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2022-06-16
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