What is Herd Immunity and How Can We Achieve It With COVID-19 ?

What is herd immunity?

When most of a population is immune to an infectious disease, this provides indirect protection—or population immunity (also called herd immunity or herd protection)—to those who are not immune to the disease.

For example, if 80% of a population is immune to a virus, four out of every five people who encounter someone with the disease won’t get sick (and won’t spread the disease any further). In this way, the spread of infectious diseases is kept under control. Depending how contagious an infection is, usually 50% to 90% of a population needs immunity before infection rates start to decline. But this percentage isn’t a “magic threshold” that we need to cross—especially for a novel virus. Both viral evolution and changes in how people interact with each other can bring this number up or down. Below any “herd immunity threshold,” immunity in the population (for example, from vaccination) can still have a positive effect. And above the threshold, infections can still occur.

-> The higher the level of immunity, the larger the benefit. This is why it is important to get as many people as possible vaccinated. <- 

More @ https://www.jhsph.edu/covid-19/articles/achieving-herd-immunity-with-covid19.html 

This is how vaccinating yourself against #COVID19 can help protect your whole community 🙅‍♀️ 👇#VaccinesWorkpic.twitter.com/cViYKupd8N

— UNICEF South Asia (@UNICEFROSA) April 19, 2021

~ Building a fairer, healthier world. 

World Health Day 2021

World Health Day 2021 ~ Building a fairer, healthier world

As COVID-19 has highlighted, some people are able to live healthier lives and have better access to health services than others - entirely due to the conditions in which they are born, grow, live, work and age.

All over the world, some groups struggle to make ends meet with little daily income, have poorer housing conditions and education, fewer employment opportunities, experience greater gender inequality, and have little or no access to safe environments, clean water and air, food security and health services. This leads to unnecessary suffering, avoidable illness, and premature death. And it harms our societies and economies.

COVID-19 has hit all countries hard, but its impact has been harshest on those communities which were already vulnerable, who are more exposed to the disease, less likely to have access to quality health care services and more likely to experience adverse consequences as a result of measures implemented to contain the pandemic.

This is key to meeting today’s challenges of ensuring Health for All and to building the resilience of tomorrow. Community Outreach Health Interventions by Trinity Care Foundations during the pandemic in rural Karnataka. 

It's World Health Day! Let's build a fairer, healthier 🌎🌍🌏#COVID19 has highlighted how some 👱🙎🏽‍♀️ live healthier lives and have better access to health services than others, simply due to their living conditions. @tcfindia @ https://t.co/WsZjGfZPhc #WorldHealthDay #SDGs pic.twitter.com/4byx9f5Gsy

— Trinity Care Foundation (@tcfindia) April 7, 2021

The needs of the hour is Collaboration with Government Systems. In Karnataka state, India, Trinity Care Foundation supports;

1.  Safety of Medical Professionals & Healthcare Staff
2.  Infrastructure at Government Healthcare facilities
3. Community Health Programs
4. COVID19 Outreach Program

We appeal to Companies to come forward to implement their CSR Projects partnering with us, Visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/trinitycarefoundation/albums/ 

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