From e61af1ee169a8a3fe9ca0c0fd7a6b0a8b426cbea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "David A. Madore" Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 00:19:37 +0200 Subject: Links to two preprints discussing the impact of heterogeneity on herd immunity. --- covid19-links.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/covid19-links.md b/covid19-links.md index 608fd2f..d463f0a 100644 --- a/covid19-links.md +++ b/covid19-links.md @@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ ## Topical or time-specific links: ## +* [Individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to SARS-CoV-2 + lowers the herd immunity + threshold](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081893v2) + (2020-05-12 preprint) suggests a lowering of herd immunity due to + population heterogeneity. + * [OpenSAFELY: factors associated with COVID-19-related hospital death in the linked electronic health records of 17 million adult NHS patients](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.06.20092999v1) @@ -93,6 +99,12 @@ criticizing the analysis for possibility of “M bias”. [Another such thread](https://twitter.com/bristimtom/status/1259458854020165632). +* [The disease-induced herd immunity level for Covid-19 is + substantially lower than the classical herd immunity + level](https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.03085) (2020-05-06 preprint) + suggests a lowering of herd immunity due to population + heterogeneity. + * [Immunology of COVID-19: current state of the science](https://www.cell.com/immunity/fulltext/S1074-7613%2820%2930183-7) (2020-05-05, *Cell Immunity*), a review of the state of knowledge -- cgit v1.2.3