Herd Immunity or Suppression Strategy to Combat COVID-19

Jung, Franziska; Krieger, Vera I.; Hufert, Frank T.; Küpper, J.‐H.

doi:10.4324/9781003141402-14

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“…A number of these have been authorized by various national and international bodies and since mid-December 2020 are being administered to large segments of the population of many countries. It is thought that to achieve an acceptable level of population (herd) immunity, at least 60-70% of the population or more needs to be vaccinated [53]. However, despite large-scale production capacity, logistical and political issues have hampered equitable access to some of the vaccines, such that most of the supplies have gone preferentially to the G20 nations.…”

Section: Reasons For Vaccine Hesitancy and The Likely Outcomementioning

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The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Health Crisis Managed or a Panic Response with Disastrous Future Consequences?

Luqmani

Hashim

2021

Med Princ Pract

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In one year the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spread rapidly across the globe affecting all societies and most age groups. It has taken not only a toll of human lives (approaching 220 million people infected with 4, 4.5 million reported deaths at time of writing), but has also decimated every economy, as countries struggle to control infection rates from airborne infection and personal contact, by introducing draconian lockdown and social distancing measures. The consequence of this has been to bring great suffering, well beyond the medical effect of the disease. A parallel pandemic has resulted in a deluge of information emanating from both scientific as well as international news media including social media platforms. Fact and fiction, reality and perception, lies and truth, have become entangled; the only realistic solution, both medically as well as politically, is concerted global vaccination to reduce further infection and introduce universal immunity. With several vaccines recently approved and being administered to general populations, a solution seems to be charted. Yet public controversy rages due to widespread apprehension regarding necessity, immediate risks and long-term safety of what is perceived as a ‘fast-tracked’ medication. While some concerns may be justified, much is also due to misconception and misunderstanding. This review highlights some of the issues concerning the handling of the COVID-19 crisis by governments worldwide, the medical and scientific communities and both the international and social media and how this may have laid the foundations for a far greater medical, social and economic burden in the coming years. We present comparative data to challenge the current conceptions of this disease in the more general context of human health, to provide a perspective that seems to have been lost in the general panic. Our aim is to re-align thinking about more rational approaches to the handling a disease which is unlikely to disappear from our spectrum of afflictions even after the magnifying glass has been removed from it.

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Section: Reasons For Vaccine Hesitancy and The Likely Outcomementioning

confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Health Crisis Managed or a Panic Response with Disastrous Future Consequences?

Luqmani

Hashim

2021

Med Princ Pract

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“… 4 , 14 This method was seen in Sweden where authorities presumed that the infection rate is up to 60% of the population, so herd immunity would be sufficient to protect the population. 15 However, they failed and the deaths per million population attributed to COVID‐19 in Sweden is at least five times more than that of Germany. 4 , 15 So, developing an effective vaccine against this SARS‐COVID‐19 is an important step and the only way of establishing herd immunity.…”

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Vaccines for Covid‐19: An insight on their effectiveness and adverse effects

Qamar

Rukh²,

Khan

2022

Journal of Medical Virology

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An era of SARS‐COVID‐19 outbreak with a high contagious percentage around the globe has been the subject of multi‐agency research aimed at generating vaccines for active immunization. Scientists across the world are joining hands for advanced tie‐ups between medical start‐ups and pharmaceutical industries for devices and vaccines development to hinder the progress of this outbreak. Moreover, the questions that need to be answered are how to improve the effectiveness and efficacy of vaccines with reduced side effects and the required doses of vaccines for enhanced surveillance. In this review article, we have discussed the effectiveness and efficacy of different Covid‐19 vaccines.

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“…2 Population hierarchy practice social distancing [67]. The Swedish herd immunity takes longer than expected [68]. This is presented in Fig.…”

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Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO)

Al-Betar

Alyasseri

Awadallah

et al. 2020

Neural Comput & Applic

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In this paper, a new nature-inspired human-based optimization algorithm is proposed which is called coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO). The inspiration of CHIO is originated from the herd immunity concept as a way to tackle coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The speed of spreading coronavirus infection depends on how the infected individuals directly contact with other society members. In order to protect other members of society from the disease, social distancing is suggested by health experts. Herd immunity is a state the population reaches when most of the population is immune which results in the prevention of disease transmission. These concepts are modeled in terms of optimization concepts. CHIO mimics the herd immunity strategy as well as the social distancing concepts. Three types of individual cases are utilized for herd immunity: susceptible, infected, and immuned. This is to determine how the newly generated solution updates its genes with social distancing strategies. CHIO is evaluated using 23 well-known benchmark functions. Initially, the sensitivity of CHIO to its parameters is studied. Thereafter, the comparative evaluation against seven state-of-the-art methods is conducted. The comparative analysis verifies that CHIO is able to yield very competitive results compared to those obtained by other well-established methods. For more validations, three real-world engineering optimization problems extracted from IEEE-CEC 2011 are used. Again, CHIO is proved to be efficient. In conclusion, CHIO is a very powerful optimization algorithm that can be used to tackle many optimization problems across a wide variety of optimization domains.

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Herd Immunity or Suppression Strategy to Combat COVID-19

Cited by 8 publications

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The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Health Crisis Managed or a Panic Response with Disastrous Future Consequences?

The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Health Crisis Managed or a Panic Response with Disastrous Future Consequences?

Vaccines for Covid‐19: An insight on their effectiveness and adverse effects

Coronavirus herd immunity optimizer (CHIO)

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