August 26, 2021 Epidemiology When/if studies clearly show that COVID vaccine is efficacious and safe for children, we will be able to get closer to herd immunity. Public Health Ontario says it is no longer possible without vaccinating young children. #vaccineswork
October 15, 2020 Epidemiology The story is not who signed the Barrington Declaration but that its ideas are unsupported by scientific evidence. Deliberately and purposefully employing SARS-CoV-2 as your vector to achieve herd immunity presents many dangers and unintended consequences.
September 8, 2020 Epidemiology Why proposing “herd immunity” as a strategy by using SARS-CoV-2 as your inoculating vector is not a good idea. Historically, there has never been a real case of herd immunity through infection.
August 12, 2020 Allergy/Immunology Although it was a specific and isolated population, there are lessons to be learned that point to rejecting the hypothesis that “natural” herd immunity will get us out of the pandemic.
April 27, 2020 Epidemiology Public Health officials are wary of a “herd-immunity” strategy as a means of reopening our economy.
June 30, 2017 Health Policy Immunocompromised child’s exposure to chicken pox underscores importance of herd immunity