Using the concept of herd immunity, vaccines have successfully controlled contagious diseases such as smallpox, polio, diphtheria, rubella and many others. The COVID-19 vaccines available in the ...

Since the start of the coronavirus, governments worldwide ... number of people who need protection before hitting herd immunity. Meanwhile, vaccine hesitancy and supply issues mean most countries ...

And right now, estimates for herd immunity to COVID-19 are somewhere over 70% ... the SARS-CoV-2 virus to end the pandemic. Now with vaccination, what we need to do is make it so that on average ...

PENNSYLVANIA, USA — The CDC is reporting that 69.4% of people ages 18-and-above are fully vaccinated in Pennsylvania. The milestone comes as the average number of people hospitalized in the ...

Dr. Marty shares details about a study of a possible correlation between COVID-19 and diabetes in young people and answers listener questions.

South Korea will achieve herd immunity from Covid-19 by the autumn, its prime minister has told the BBC, despite a later start to its vaccination programme. The country was one of the first hit by ...

Some 70 per cent of the population needs to have been vaccinated for the city to reach “herd immunity ... think that the vaccine should protect them completely from Covid-19.