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Herd immunity: the number of people
immune in the population decreases the risk of infection to the susceptible by
diminishing the probability of exposure. The higher the basic reproductive rate
of infection, the larger the number of immune people are required to confer herd
immunity.
I u = incidence in the unvaccinatedI v = incidence in the vaccinated |