COVID-19Last year, herd immunity seemed like a comforting promise as researchers worked on dozens of COVID-19 vaccine candidates and a silver-lining to the rampant spread of the virus — the more people who got infected, the more natural immunity that would develop over time.

There are now dissenting opinions about how the term relates to the current pandemic and the role of vaccines in achieving it.

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