Around seven million more children may need to catch Covid for herd immunity

Without being vaccinated around 7 million children could catch Covid, as “currently around 25% of children may have immunity from Covid through previous infection but to get population immunity you need about 80%,” says Professor Christina Pagel (UCL Mathematics).

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