An infectious disease specialist took the time to explain what herd immunity is, how it works and when it might affect the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Frank Esper works for the Cleveland Clinic Children's ...

Herd immunity went from a phrase most of us had never heard of to the thing we're all waiting for in just about a year's time. "It's kind of shorthand for back to normal," said Dr. Bob Wachter, chair ...

Herd immunity occurs when enough people in a group are immune to a specific infection that it cannot spread easily from person to person. Vaccination programs have been successful in creating herd ...

Herd immunity is the name for a point in time when it's hard for a disease to spread through a group of people. The idea of herd immunity works for some diseases, such as measles. But it's a harder ...

A nearly COVID-free summer has long been the goal of public health officials who are striving to get enough people vaccinated by then to achieve so-called herd immunity. But is that a realistic goal? ...

New York state has half the population of California but has experienced 14 times as many deaths from novel coronavirus. RELATED: Californians may have developed some herd immunity to coronavirus last ...

Herd immunity with Covid-19 could come and go, scientists say. Or we might never reach it at all. "There's a lot of things that have to go our way to actually get to herd immunity," said Dr.

You might have heard of herd or community immunity, when a vaccinated portion of a population (aka "the herd") provides unvaccinated people with some protection from a contagious disease. Thanks to ...

Drivers line up at the entrance of Montgomery County's first mass coronavirus test center in Upper Dublin Township on March 20, 2020. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Wil Acosta) “Herd ...

Kristine Macartney administers Australian and NSW Government funding to the NCIRS and NCIRS receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and Gavi the Vaccine ...