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...
Main Authors: | Elbasha, E.H (Author), Gumel, A.B (Author) |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
2021
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Online Access: | View Fulltext in Publisher |
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