The 'herd immunity' route to fighting coronavirus is unethical and potentially dangerous
- Written by Arindam Basu, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Environmental Health, University of Canterbury
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As most of the world tries to suppress the coronavirus spread, some countries are going it alone - trying to manage the pandemic through so-called “herd immunity”.
Herd immunity means letting a large number of people catch a disease, and hence develop immunity to it, to stop the virus spreading.
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