Herd Immunity

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Herd Immunity

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It seems reasonable to me that “herd immunity,” as previously defined, would be an effective means of indirect protection from infection. Those in a community that are immune to a virus through previous infection, receiving antibodies from mother, or possibly vaccination, can't spread the virus and act as buffer zones for those with compromised immune systems, causing the disease to be eradicated in that community. Here are those definitions:


Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity
Herd immunity (also called herd effect, community immunity, population immunity, or social immunity) is a form of indirect protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has become immune to an infection, whether through vaccination or previous infections, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection for individuals who lack immunity.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction ... 20immunity.
Herd Immunity -
: a reduction in the risk of infection with a specific communicable disease (such as measles or influenza) that occurs when a significant proportion of the population has become immune to infection (as because of previous exposure or vaccination) so that susceptible individuals are much less likely to come in contact with infected individuals … when the percentage of people vaccinated against a particular disease drops, herd immunity begins to fail.—
The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary, © 2002, 2001, 1995, Houghton Mifflin Company.
herd immunity –
[ hûrd ]n.
Resistance to the spread of infectious disease in a group because susceptible members are few, making transmission from an infected member unlikely.
The immunologic status of a population, determined by the ratio of resistant to susceptible members and their distribution.
WebMD, 2020
https://www.webmd.com/lung/what-is-herd-immunity
Herd Immunity
Herd immunity, or community immunity, is when a large part of the population of an area is immune to a specific disease. If enough people are resistant to the cause of a disease, such as a virus or bacteria, it has nowhere to go.
Farlex Partner Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
herd im•mu•ni•ty
the resistance to invasion and spread of an infectious agent in a group or community, based on the resistance to infection of a high proportion of individual members of the group; resistance is a product of the number susceptible and the probability that susceptibles will come into contact with an infected person.
Medical Dictionary for the Health Professions and Nursing © Farlex 2012
herd im•mu•nity
(hĕrd i-myū'ni-tē)
The resistance to invasion and spread of an infectious agent in a group or community, based on the resistance to infection of a high proportion of individual members of the group.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
herd immunity
resistance of a population to a particular PATHOGEN due to IMMUNITY of a large percentage of that population to the pathogen.
But now some want us to believe that the definition of “herd immunity” has changed…

The following is from https://needtoknow.news/
The traditional meaning of “herd immunity,” when a population becomes immune to a virus by being exposed to it, was changed by the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) to include vaccines as one means by which this could happen. But now, WHO has redefined herd immunity again, this time stating that herd immunity can be achieved only by mass vaccination programs – which, of course, is not true. The WHO’s website, under a section about COVID lockdowns, states:

“Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached. Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.” In other words, the WHO is trying to make people believe that the only way they can be protected from a virus by means of herd immunity is to be vaccinated.
In the US, Dr. Anthony Fauci now says as much as 90% of the population may need to be vaccinated or infected to achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, admitting in a new interview that he has been intentionally raising the bar based, in part, on what he thinks the country is ready to hear. -GEG
The World Health Organization has changed the definition of “herd immunity,” eliminating the pre-COVID consensus that it could be achieved by allowing a virus to spread through a population, and insisting that herd immunity comes solely from vaccines.

The change occurred on a section of the WHO’s website entitled ‘Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Serology, antibodies and immunity’.

The WHO’s original definition (archived here) states that herd immunity “happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. This means that even people who haven’t been infected, or in whom an infection hasn’t triggered an immune response, they are protected because people around them who are immune can act as buffers between them and an infected person.”

The original definition fails to identify the pre-COVID consensus on what is meant by “herd immunity,” which is when a population becomes protected against a virus because enough people have been infected with it to create community immunity.

However, the WHO’s updated version is even more extreme, insisting that herd immunity can only be achieved by mass vaccination programs.

“‘Herd immunity’, also known as ‘population immunity’, is a concept used for vaccination, in which a population can be protected from a certain virus if a threshold of vaccination is reached,” states the WHO website, adding, “Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it.”

Read full article here…

Additional sources:
World Health Organization document: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detai ... d-covid-19
https://nypost.com/2020/12/24/fauci-cov ... accinated/
Firestarter writes about what he calls the Herd Immunity Sham here.

See also:
INOCULATION
VACCINATION
PHARMAKEIA
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