herd immunities

A form of herd immunity — The indirect protection against the spread of a contagious disease in a given population caused by the immunity of a significant proportion of the population to that particular disease; the immunity may have been obtained through having survived the infection or through vaccination.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of herd immunity
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