Can Herd Immunity Help In Corona Virus Battle? (In HINDI)
Channel: The Origin Of life.
Date: 03/05/2020

#COVID19
#Coronavirus

IN VIDEO
#herdimmunity
Can herd immunity help in corona virus battle?
1.What’s it?
2.What’s the problem?
3.Feasible?
4.Risk?
5.Will it work?
6.The challenge

1.What’s it?
Herd immunity is when a large section of a population is immunized to a disease- either through a vaccination or due to having the actual illness and recovering.

2.What’s the problem?
The problem is there isn’t a vaccine, which means inducing herd immunity becomes a challenge;
 it would mean deliberately introducing the virus into the population.

3.Feasible?
The Princeton study advocates releasing the pathogen in a controlled manner by lifting the lock down and allowing the workforce to resume their jobs, predicting that 60% of the Indian population will develop herd immunity by November.

4.Risk?
However, a study by Los Alamos National Laboratory, US - not specific to India - said 82% of the population needs to be immune before herd immunity kicks in. The risk is for people over 65, who are most vulnerable to COVID-19.

5.Will it work?
Theoretically, yes. Measles - extremely contagious - with one person able to infect 18 others, needed at least 95% of the population to become immune in order to develop herd immunity. It was declared eliminated in 2000. COVID-19 is much less contagious.

6.The challenge
Comorbidities - pre-existing conditions that are worsened by the infection - are high in India.The country has the second highest number of diabetics in the world and scores of other problems like heart and respiratory illnesses.

Source :
ECONOMICTIMES.INDIATIMES.COM
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/can-herd-immunity-help-in-coronavirus-battle/whats-the-problem/slideshow/75315779.cms


What's in a name? A lot apparently:
   ' COVID-19'
-'CO' stands for corona
-'VI' for #virus
-'D' for disease
-"19' for 2019 - the year it was first identified 
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Source: World Health Organization