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Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible

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Title
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible
Published by
Nature, March 2021
DOI 10.1038/d41586-021-00728-2
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Authors

Christie Aschwanden

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 376 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 53 14%
Student > Master 50 13%
Researcher 45 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 26 7%
Other 18 5%
Other 58 15%
Unknown 126 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 65 17%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 34 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 6%
Social Sciences 17 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 4%
Other 86 23%
Unknown 138 37%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7759. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 April 2024.
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#333
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#21
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#26
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#5
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