Online Covid vaccine calculator gets herd immunity update
An online calculator that told users their place in the queue for coronavirus vaccines has been updated to include when the country could gain herd immunity .
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An online calculator that told users their “place” in the queue for coronavirus vaccines has been updated to include when the country could gain “herd immunity”.
The Vaccine Queue Calculator for Scotland has proven popular with people in Scotland keen on working out roughly when they can expect their first inoculation against Covid-19.
Online Covid vaccine calculator gets herd immunity update
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Our vocabulary has been completely overhauled since the arrival of COVID-19 into our lives at the start of last year. Despite rarely having uttered them prior to 2020, phrases such as social distancing, lateral flow, and herd immunity are now being dropped into conversations regularly. And that last one - herd immunity - is particularly prevalent at the moment, as speculation arises about exactly when we might expect to reach it.
If you re unfamiliar with what herd immunity is, here goes: It s the point at which enough people in a population have developed immunity (either through having had the virus or having received a vaccine) to an infectious disease that it slows its spread. The idea is, if enough people develop a resistance to coronavirus, its transmission will reduce so much that it will hopefully begin to die out.
April 09, 2021 A UNIVERSITY of the Philippines (UP) engineer and a De La Salle University (DLSU) researcher have invented a coronavirus disease (Covid-19) vaccine queue calculator to help Filipinos “see if the national vaccination plan is being followed.”
“As the Philippines begins its Covid-19 vaccinations. a question still lingers in millions of minds like mine – How far in the queue am I? I tried searching for an answer but ended up building a tool that calculates it instead,” said Kenneth Alambra, a civil engineer from the UP-Los Baños.
“Since there are around 110 million people in the Philippines, not everybody can get vaccinated immediately. It raises a whole load of new questions: Who will be first in the queue to get the vaccine? When are you likely to be offered it? How far are we away from the finish line?” he asked.