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Could 30 per cent of Brits have some Covid immunity?

23 December 2020

8:00 PM

23 December 2020

8:00 PM

How big is the job of vaccination? The aim is herd immunity, to protect enough people so that the virus starts to run out of people to infect and rates fall. This is expected to happen when between 60 to 80 per cent of the population is protected, so quite a job for the NHS.

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Philip Thomas is Professor of Risk Management at the University of Bristol


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