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Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (99th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (99th percentile)

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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 366 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 53 14%
Student > Master 49 13%
Researcher 43 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 6%
Other 18 5%
Other 60 16%
Unknown 120 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 65 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 33 9%
Nursing and Health Professions 21 6%
Social Sciences 18 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 4%
Other 83 23%
Unknown 132 36%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7996. 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 27 May 2023.
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#305
of 23,866,543 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#20
of 93,144 outputs
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#31
of 457,358 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#5
of 903 outputs
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