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‘Pursuing herd immunity’: Australia’s two-stage strategy to protect community – Sydney Morning Herald
Australians are being promised a two-stage strategy to protect the population from COVID-19 under a commitment to pursue herd immunity while making vaccines available…
In a key concern over the interim results for AstraZeneca, scientists this week told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age the vaccines efficacy rate was not high enough so far to achieve herd immunity.
The concept of herd immunity describes the objective of eliminating an epidemic by building up a communitys resistance to disease to the point where so many are protected it no longer spreads.
A spokesman for Mr Hunt said the government view was to deliver protection and herd immunity but that results…
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