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Critical Frequency of Vaccines

08/18/2009 9:44 AM

Is there a critical frequency of inoculations that human style social networks such as the nuclear unit could utilize to successfully stop the spread of a supervirus? That is supposing the vaccine has been developed at an ever more modern pace and can't meet overall manufacturing requirement. If the proximity to the spread is a pathway then can divisionary tactics such as the nuclear family find buffer zones by merely inoculating every second child and a single parent who then become the public face. And in zones further back the public faces and odd travellers become the only inoculated priorities.

My neighbors are trying another divisionary tactic of limited exposure in public places!

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Re: Critical frequency of vaccines!

08/18/2009 12:37 PM

It depends very much on the virus in question. What is the method of transmission? Is it lethal? In what time-frame?

I assume you are asking about a critical density of immune persons rather than a frequency. If so, you need data on transmission. That sort of approach might work OK with a rhinovirus where the chance of infection seems to be related to the amount of exposure.

Do you have a specific virus in mind? Have you checked the CDC website?

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Re: Critical Frequency of Vaccines

08/18/2009 7:40 PM

H1N1 will require two injections. Three weeks apart.

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