A history of herd immunity

Lancet. 2020 Sep 19;396(10254):810-811. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31924-3.

Authors

David Jones¹, Stefan Helmreich²

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: dsjones@harvard.edu.
² MIT Anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Historical Article

MeSH terms

Abortion, Veterinary / history
Animals
Betacoronavirus / immunology*
Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification
COVID-19
Cattle
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / immunology*
Coronavirus Infections / mortality
Coronavirus Infections / virology
Diphtheria / immunology
History, 20th Century
Humans
Immunity, Herd / immunology*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / immunology*
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality
Pneumonia, Viral / virology
SARS-CoV-2
United Kingdom / epidemiology
United States / epidemiology
Veterinarians / history