Vaccination and herd immunity thresholds in heterogeneous populations

It has been suggested, without rigorous mathematical analysis, that the classical vaccine-induced herd immunity threshold (HIT) assuming a homogeneous population can be substantially higher than the minimum HIT obtained when considering population heterogeneities. We investigated this claim by devel...

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Main Authors: Elbasha, E.H (Author), Gumel, A.B (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH 2021
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