Posts Tagged ‘community immunity’
Recent Study Outlines Pillars for Successful Vaccination Efforts
A recent study published by Drugs in Context identifies 42 key factors, spread across five main pillars, for successful flu vaccination programs. The study analyzed the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, and Canada as countries that consistently have the highest influenza vaccine coverage rates (VCR). The goal of the study was to provide a roadmap…
Read MoreWhat is Community Immunity?
Community immunity, sometimes called herd immunity, has been in the news lately in talks about COVID-19. There is confusion about the term and what it really means. Community immunity is the concept that an infectious disease cannot spread when enough people in a community are immune to it. For flu, the safest way to acquire…
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