Herd Immunity, Nature's own measure of protecting lives
Did you ever wonder what happens if all the research work to find a vaccine for COVID-19 go south. can we survive this pandemic Without finding a cure ?? Is it possible to eradicate this disease ?? Is there any other way to put an end to this ?? The answer is YES, even without finding a vaccine, we can eradicate this contagious disease but at a COST and the way is to go for HERD IMMUNITY. If someone contracts and recovers from a disease their immune system gets boosted up for them the chances of contracting the same disease again are very less, if in a region more number of people recover from the disease then it is known as herd immunity. Herd immunity was first recognized as a naturally occurring phenomenon in the 1930s when A. W. Hedrich published research on the epidemiology of measles in Baltimore and took notice that after many children had become immune to measles, the number of new infections temporarily decreased, including among ...