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The 32 pages that link to Herd immunity, each with the reason it gives.

• VaccinationRelated: High vaccination coverage can reduce transmission and protect people who are not immune.

• VaccineRelated: High vaccination coverage can reduce transmission and protect people who lack immunity.

• VirusRelated: Population immunity can reduce opportunities for a virus to spread.

• Vaccine hesitancyRelated: Reduced uptake can weaken population protection, especially for people who cannot be vaccinated.

• Immunological memoryRelated: Memory acquired through vaccination or infection can contribute to population-level protection.

• Antigenic variationRelated: Antigenic change can let a pathogen spread among people protected against older variants.

• Influenza vaccineRelated: High vaccination coverage can reduce influenza spread, though protection is incomplete and variable.

• Preventive medicineRelated: High vaccination coverage can protect people who remain susceptible or cannot be vaccinated.

• Asymptomatic infectionRelated: Asymptomatic infections may contribute to population immunity while remaining difficult to count.

• Live attenuated vaccineRelated: High coverage with effective live vaccines can interrupt transmission and protect unvaccinated people.

• EpidemicRelated: Population immunity can slow spread and bring an epidemic’s effective reproduction number below one.

• Primary preventionRelated: Population immunity can reduce exposure for people who remain susceptible.

• PandemicRelated: Population immunity can slow transmission and alter a pandemic's course.

• Pneumococcal vaccineRelated: Childhood vaccination can reduce circulation of vaccine-type pneumococci and protect unvaccinated people.

• COVID-19 lockdownsCompared with: Some proposals favored allowing infections to spread toward population immunity rather than imposing broad lockdowns.

• COVID-19 vaccineCompared with: Vaccination protects individuals, but protection from transmission depends on population immunity and viral evolution.

• VariolationRelated: Widespread immunization eventually reduced smallpox transmission beyond the protection of each individual.

• HPV vaccineRelated: High HPV vaccine coverage can reduce transmission and protect people beyond those vaccinated.

• Meningococcal vaccineRelated: Reduced meningococcal carriage after conjugate vaccination can protect unvaccinated people.

• Corynebacterium diphtheriaeRelated: High vaccine coverage limits the spread of diphtheria in communities.

• DiphtheriaRelated: High vaccine coverage helps protect people who are not fully immunized.

• MMR vaccineRelated: High MMR coverage reduces opportunities for these viruses to spread to susceptible people.

• Varicella vaccineNarrower topic: High vaccine coverage can reduce virus circulation and protect susceptible people.

• Rotavirus vaccineNarrower topic: High vaccination coverage can reduce transmission and protect some unvaccinated children.

• Whooping coughRelated: High community immunity reduces opportunities for pertussis to spread.

• Maurice HillemanRelated: Widespread use of Hilleman’s vaccines helped reduce transmission of several infectious diseases.

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr.Compared with: Vaccination can build population immunity, a benefit often omitted in Kennedy's vaccine critiques.

• Hib vaccineRelated: High Hib vaccine coverage also reduces circulation and protects people not fully immunized.

• Typhoid vaccineRelated: High vaccine coverage can reduce transmission and protect people not yet vaccinated.

• Asian flu pandemicRelated: Prior lack of immunity to H2N2 helped the virus spread widely.

• COVID-19 pandemic in SwedenCompared with: International debate often mischaracterized Sweden’s strategy as deliberately pursuing herd immunity through infection.

• DPT vaccineRelated: High uptake of pertussis-containing vaccines helps limit spread through communities.