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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Julie Parsonnet: How faith in herd immunity may be misplaced
Description: Many have now become familiar with the term herd immunity, an idea few outside the infectious disease community knew just a few short months ago.It’s an elusive concept to comprehend, and harder still to achieve, but Stanford epidemiologist Dr. Julie Parsonnet says it’s important to understand just what herd immunity does – and doesn’t – mean for today’s pandemic.Broadly speaking, herd immunity is reached when enough people have either recovered from or have been fully vaccinated against an infectious disease and there are no longer enough susceptible people in the entire population...