TECHNOFIT PSA : HERD IMMUNITY
TECHNOFIT PSA : HERD IMMUNITY
Herd immunity, also known as population immunity, is the indirect protection from an infectious disease that happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection.
Herd immunity against COVID-19 should be achieved by protecting people through vaccination, not by exposing them to the pathogen that causes the disease.
Vaccines train our immune systems to create proteins that fight disease, known as ‘antibodies’, just as would happen when we are exposed to a disease but – crucially – vaccines work without making us sick.
Vaccinated people are protected from getting the disease in question and passing on the pathogen, breaking any chains of transmission.
To safely achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, a substantial proportion of a population would need to be vaccinated, lowering the overall amount of virus able to spread in the whole population.
TECHNOFIT is moving towards supporting government’s goal to achieve herd immunity by encouraging every TECHNOFIT staff to get vaccinated.
Herd immunity is the key to control the spread of COVID-19 !
