community immunity
English
Noun
community immunity (countable and uncountable, plural community immunities)
- (epidemiology) Synonym of herd immunity [1][2]
- 2021 December 9, Ottawa Public Health, “Thank you for getting vaccinated!”, in Community Immunity: Let's stay the course, Ottawa:
- How to help: Be social wise while we build community immunity
- 2021 May 27, Fraser Health, “Fraser Health Mayors Challenge Each Other to Community Immunity”, in News:
- In Delta we look forward to championing the race to community immunity and hope all of our neighbours will be right on our heels.
- 2019 April 22, Paul A. Offit, “Types of Immunity”, in Vaccine Education Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia:
- A third category, community immunity, does not involve physical components of the immune system for protection, but is still worth discussion in this capacity.
References
- U.S. NIH (October 2011), “Community Immunity: How Vaccines Protect Us All”, in News in Health, United States National Institutes of Health: “This type of protection is known as “community immunity” or “herd immunity”.”
- U.S. CDC (30 July 2020), “Glossary”, in Vaccines & Immunizations, United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
- Community immunity: A situation in which a sufficient proportion of a population is immune to an infectious disease (through vaccination and/or prior illness) to make its spread from person to person unlikely. Even individuals not vaccinated (such as newborns and those with chronic illnesses) are offered some protection because the disease has little opportunity to spread within the community. Also known as herd immunity.