Australia Still Has a ‘Long Journey’ Before Reaching Herd Immunity: Expert

Australia Still Has a ‘Long Journey’ Before Reaching Herd Immunity: Expert
People wait to be register their information before being vaccinated at the Royal Exhibition Building COVID-19 Vaccination Centre in Melbourne, Australia on May 28, 2021. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images
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One of Australia’s leading medical research institutes specialising in COVID-19 has said the country still has a long way to go before achieving herd immunity.

Modelling (pdf) from the Burnet Institute on the Victorian second wave suggested the vaccination threshold should be around 60-80 percent of the population, assuming the vaccines have 50 percent efficacy at preventing infection.
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