How Herd Immunity Works

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Herd immunity is an epidemiological concept that if enough people are inoculated against a disease the rest of us won’t get it. It’s been useful in holding back diseases like polio and measles, but we have vaccines for them. We don’t have one for Covid-19.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:31.3	Welcome to Steph You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.
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0:43.0	I'm Josh Clark.
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0:46.9	And it's just the two of us again.
0:49.4	But work, I'm getting used to it.
0:50.6	How about you?
0:52.7	I am sweating in our studio by myself.
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