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I heard it through the grapevine: On herd immunity and why it is important by A. DAVID NAPIER is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
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A. David Napier has been studying immunology and immunologists for more than three decades. In this article, he argues that the medicalization of viral epidemics has distracted us from the importance of their true social drivers: that is, the behaviour of people when they are together – what epidemiologists call human herds. On their own, viruses cannot ‘invade’ us. Our cells bring them to life and make them infectious through our social actions. Confusing viruses with invasive microbes not only leads us to misuse antibiotics, but fosters xenophobic responses towards outside carriers – as even our neighbours become categorical ‘others’ in the face of a foreign threat. Indeed, new work in viral epidemiology indicates that many viruses have infectious potential long before an epidemic develops. It is not only changes within viruses that cause epidemics, but also the condition of human herds – how we behave socially – that ignites the rapid circulation of viral information.
Who reads I heard it through the grapevine: On herd immunity and why it is important?
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- Author
- A. DAVID NAPIER
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences