{"id":2822,"date":"2020-12-17T14:08:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=2822"},"modified":"2020-12-18T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:14:26","slug":"estimating-the-herd-immunity-threshold-by-accounting-for-the-hidden-asymptomatics-using-a-covid-19-specific-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/estimating-the-herd-immunity-threshold-by-accounting-for-the-hidden-asymptomatics-using-a-covid-19-specific-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Estimating the Herd Immunity Threshold by Accounting for the Hidden Asymptomatics Using a COVID-19 Specific Model"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>A model using data from Japan, Italy, France, and Switzerland that incorporates undetected asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection suggests herd immunity could be achieved when active symptomatic patients are 10-25% of the population, much lower than current estimates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kaushal et al. (Dec 16, 2020). Estimating the Herd Immunity Threshold by Accounting for the Hidden Asymptomatics Using a COVID-19 Specific Model. PLOS ONE.<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0242132\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0242132<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A model using data from Japan, Italy, France, and Switzerland that incorporates undetected asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection suggests herd immunity could be achieved when active symptomatic patients are 10-25% of the population, much lower than current estimates. Kaushal et al. (Dec 16, 2020). Estimating the Herd Immunity Threshold by Accounting for the Hidden Asymptomatics Using a&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/12\/17\/estimating-the-herd-immunity-threshold-by-accounting-for-the-hidden-asymptomatics-using-a-covid-19-specific-model\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-2822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2822"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2823,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2822\/revisions\/2823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2822"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=2822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}