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B.C. won’t reach COVID-19 herd immunity under current vaccination plan: SFU researchers
COVID-19 under current vaccination plans and the novel coronavirus and its variants may still spread once social distancing measures are relaxed.The report calls for vaccinating children and youth as soon as it is safe to do so and encouraging vaccine acceptance among the entire adult population.“What we found is that if we vaccinate the number of people who say they’re going to want a vaccine now and we don’t vaccinate kids because right now they’re not approved, we’re not really in a position to just completely reopen and go completely back to normal because we’ve left too many people unprotected,” said Caroline Colijn, an infectious disease modeller and mathematics professor at SFU.Colijn and colleague Paul Tupper ran a set of