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Covid-19: 'Protecting the population with immune individuals'
In a commentary published in Nature Medicine on 7 May 2020, BCEPS Director Ole F. Norheim foresees wide acceptance of this strategy on ethical grounds, given that it can maximize lives saved at a lower cost and with burdens more fairly distributed than is the case for most other policies.
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Updated: 28.09.2020 (First published: 02.06.2020)
Modeling an approach in which people who have recovered from COVID-19 are returned to society to reduce interactions between infected people and vulnerable people indicates the effectiveness of such an approach in reducing deaths.
Norheim's commentary is written in response to research on shield immunity written by Weitz et al and published in the same edition of Nature Medicine.
- Research article by Weitz et al:
Protecting the population with immune individuals
- Commentary by Ole F. Norheim:
Modeling shield immunity to reduce COVID-19 epidemic spread
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