{"id":14280,"date":"2020-03-16T15:26:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14280"},"modified":"2020-03-16T15:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T09:56:25","slug":"explained-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Herd immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Recently,the UK government has announced that it is aiming to achieve herd immunity as a way of tackling COVID-19.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Herd Immunity:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Herd immunity is when a large number of people are vaccinated against a disease, lowering the chances of others being infected by it.<\/li><li>However,this type of immunity is usually viewed as a preventive strategy in vaccination programmes.<\/li><li>Since,we don\u2019t have a vaccine for COVID-19 \u2013 achieving herd immunity would require a significant proportion of the population to be infected and recover from COVID-19.<\/li><li>This will allow us to retain an immunological memory of the disease that enables us to fight off that same disease in the future.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/coKamjJ0_hCN6FTmsdrOI0MqIuIQajCzfiW2-73po7BUHO1fFCKYcMZ0gGcLLhAU7fSpoEQk93QZhzcI25xoOTwhhMCS27lGsrnrQE6oCwCKRuV3b35Mwll_nNN6NprQxKNEFvZU\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Recently,the UK government has announced that it is aiming to achieve herd immunity as a way of tackling COVID-19. Facts: About Herd Immunity: Herd immunity is when a large number of people are vaccinated against a disease, lowering the chances of others being infected by it. However,this type of immunity is usually viewed as a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-herd-immunity\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: Herd immunity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2832],"class_list":["post-14280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-herd-immunity","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704837739},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}