Dynamics of Population Immunity Due to the Herd Effect in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Vaccines

Manuel Jiménez¹  Juan Camilo Benitez-Agudelo²  Ronald Maestre-Serrano³  Eduardo Navarro-Jiménez³  Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez⁴  Jose Francisco Tornero-Aguilera⁴  Natalia Perez-Palencia⁵  Alberto Hormeño-Holgado⁶  Carmen Cecilia Laborde-Cárdenas⁷ 

[1] Departamento de Didáctica de la Educación Física y Salud, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain;Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas, Universidad de la Costa, Barranquilla 080002, Colombia;Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla 080005, Colombia;Faculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, 28670 Madrid, Spain;Nonaffiliated Independent Researcher, Colombia;Studies Centre in Applied Combat (CESCA), 45007 Toledo, Spain;Vicerrectoría De Investigación e Innovación, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla 080005, Colombia;

关键词: SARS-Cov-2;    COVID-19;    herd immunology;    vaccines;    pandemic;    epidemiology;   

DOI  :  10.3390/vaccines8020236

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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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