Here's where the maths comes in. Now, immunity can be conferred by vaccines, but it doesn't HAVE to be. Even without vaccines you start seeing herd immunity once 90%+ of the population has been infected
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What this means is that we have to vaccinate 75-86% of the population to reach the threshold for herd immunity for mumps
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The more infectious the disease, the more you have to vaccinate Measles can live for hours, even days, outside the body, and has an R0 of >12, which means that we need to vaccinate 95% of the population to be sure it won't spread
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Smallpox only has an R0 of 7, which means that we only had to vaccinate ~85% of people to eliminate the disease
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And that's it. That's how herd immunity works Simple, easy, incredibly, wonderfully powerfulpic.twitter.com/GywhQILLPQ
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People do still get these diseases. No vaccine is 100% effective - although many are close to that - so vaccination rates often have to be higher than even the theoretical herd immunity threshold
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There are also a lot of people who have been scared away from vaccination by anti-vaccine activists who spread fear about lifesaving medical interventions
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But we know that vaccinations WORK Australia has now eliminated endemic measles and rubella, and almost entirely eliminated many other infectious diseases, with some of the highest vaccination rates in the world
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So get your vaccines They will not only stop YOU from getting sick, they'll also stop you from passing diseases onto more vulnerable people like babies and immunocompromised people
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And the next time someone says "herd immunity is a myth!", feel free to reference this thread and/or blog Herd immunity is simple maths, nothing more, nothing less
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What's the threshold for vaccinating against keto brain?
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Unfortunately, there is no upper limit
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