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Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control

Davidovitch, Nadav
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Signorelli, Carlo
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Chambaud, Laurent
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Tenenbaum, Arianne
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Reid, John
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Middleton, John
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ASPHER COVID-19 Task Force, Brussels, Belgium; School of Public Health, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel; Università Vita-Salute, San Raffaele (UniSR), Milan, Italy; École des Hautes Études en Sante Publique (EHESP), Rennes, France; Department of Public Health and Wellbeing, University of Chester, Chester, United Kingdom; Association of Schools of Public Health in the European Region – ASPHER, Brussels, Belgium
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Short opinion article advising against relying on natural herd immunity and need for vaccine derived population immunity. "We need to focus on using successful virus suppression strategies until we reach herd immunity with the new vaccines. We need to track the epidemiology of the virus using population serology, but it is dangerous, and unfounded in science, to advocate natural herd immunity as a means to pandemic control".
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Davidovitch, N., Signorelli, C., Chambaud, L., Tenenbaum, A., Reid, J. & Middleton, J. (2020). Natural herd immunity should not be used as a means of pandemic control. BMJ Opinion.
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BMJ Opinion
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https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/12/17/natural-herd-immunity-should-not-be-used-as-a-means-of-pandemic-control/