Ep. 13 - Natural Herd Immunity Vs. Artificial Vaccine-Induced Immunity

The Vaccine Conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob

Immunity Education Group

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

You’ve heard it is critical for our society to maintain herd immunity to keep the public from experiencing major disease outbreaks. But is this really true? Is vaccine-induced immunity the same as natural immunity, and does it offer the same level of protection? We present the pros and cons of natural herd immunity and discuss the downside of artificially induced immunity for disease management in society.

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0:00.0	When you open the door, for somebody else, welcome everyone to this episode of the vaccine
0:16.8	conversation with Melissa and Dr. Bob.
0:20.4	I'm Dr. Bob and...
0:22.1	Yeah, and I'm Melissa.
0:23.3	Hey, guys.
0:24.3	Super excited to be here with you.
0:28.4	And anyway, we've been talking about some really interesting topics so far.
0:33.1	This has been really fun for us just so you know we've really appreciated all of the comments
0:38.2	and reviews and ratings we've been getting and make sure to check it out on iTunes and
0:42.7	do that and check out our website too, where we have more content listed.
0:47.9	I'd say today's topic is probably one of the most popular when it comes to...
0:57.9	The informed consent side of this.
1:01.6	This is probably the most popular topic that you hear about and when it comes to legislators
1:06.2	in that side of it, it's the most popular sound bite, one of the most popular sound bites
1:10.0	you're hearing to promote mandatory vaccination policies.
1:16.0	What topic is that, Bob?
1:18.2	Herd immunity.
1:19.8	You heard it correctly.
1:20.8	Herd immunity.
1:21.8	Herd immunity.
1:22.8	That's so funny.
1:23.8	You guys think of the other day, you know, we like to hide the topic for the first few minutes
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