Herd immunity for Covid-19 in homogeneous populations

Herd immunity for Covid-19 in homogeneous populations

In this note we estimate herd immunity levels for the Covid-19 epidemic using a standard SEIR system that models the disease dynamics in homogeneous populations. The results obtained are indicative of values between 80% and 90% for unprotected, fully susceptible populations. Basic protective measure...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2021-05
Hauptverfasser: Zingano, Janaina P, Zingano, Paulo R, Silva, Alessandra M, Zingano, Carolina P
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Sprache:eng
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Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Herd immunity
Hygiene
Immunity
Populations
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Zusammenfassung:In this note we estimate herd immunity levels for the Covid-19 epidemic using a standard SEIR system that models the disease dynamics in homogeneous populations. The results obtained are indicative of values between 80% and 90% for unprotected, fully susceptible populations. Basic protective measures such as hand hygiene and mask wearing may be effective to lower herd immunity levels down to values between 50% and 60% of the total population.
ISSN:2331-8422