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ArticleGlobal health research and policy2023

Achieving herd immunity in South America.

Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno, Deborah Oluwaseun Shomuyiwa, Creuza Rachel Vicente, María José González Méndez, Shohra Qaderi, Jaifred Christian Lopez, Yidnekachew Girma Mogessie, Jason Alacapa, Lila Chamlagai, Remy Ndayizeye and 1 more

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Article in Global health research and policy, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Don Eliseo Lucero-PrisnoDepartment of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2179-6365
Deborah Oluwaseun ShomuyiwaFaculty of Pharmacy, University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria. deborahshomuyiwa@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0001-6665-9439
Creuza Rachel VicenteDepartment of Social Medicine, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, Brazil.ORCID 0000-0003-0182-7969
María José González MéndezGlobal Health Focus South America, Santiago, Chile.ORCID 0000-0001-8160-7629
Shohra QaderiMaternal Fetal Care Center, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4427-5121
Jaifred Christian LopezDepartment of Population Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8273-992X
Yidnekachew Girma MogessieJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2452-563X
Jason AlacapaJohns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0794-3947
Lila ChamlagaiSchool of Public Health, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3613-2534
Remy NdayizeyeGeorge Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4595-1825
Pelin KinaySchool of Climate Change and Adaptation, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-3869-1797

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

South America, once an epicenter of COVID-19, has stayed on the road of continued management of the pandemic. The region initially struggled to cope with the pandemic as it experienced spiraling numbers of infections and overwhelmed public health systems. South America has risen in its pandemic response to be the region with the highest global vaccination rate. The region posed a strong vaccination drive, with over 76% of its population fully vaccinated with the initial protocol. South America leveraged its deeply rooted vaccination culture and public health confidence among its population. Herd immunity is an integral concept in population infectious disease management. Attaining herd immunity is presently not feasible with available vaccines, but the high vaccination rate in the region depicts the acceptance of vaccination as a strategy for population protection. The availability of effective transmission-blocking vaccines, the continuous implementation of strategies that will enable the undisrupted supply of the vaccines, equity in access to the vaccines, improved vaccine acceptance, and trust in the vaccination and public health systems will help shepherd the region towards herd immunity. Local vaccine production backed with investment in infrastructure and international collaboration for research and knowledge development will also drive population safety.

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COVID-19VaccinesHumansImmunity, HerdSouth AmericaVaccinationVaccinesCOVID-19Herd immunityPandemicPopulation healthSouth AmericaVaccination

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PMID36726143
PMCPMC9891655

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