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Study suggests that Brazil's Amazon city achieved 'herd immunity' to COVID-19
Publicado em 29 de setembro de 2020
The study, published on the medRxiv, suggests based on mathematical models and the analysis of samples from a blood bank that 66% of the population of Manaus developed antibodies to Covid-19.
That rate may be sufficient to achieve “herd immunity”, in which a community has such a high percentage of members who have been immunized to a disease that the probability of contagion decreases considerably, the authors explain, from a team of 34 Brazilian and foreign scientists.
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