herd immunity

protection from infectious disease that occurs when a sufficient fraction of a population has become immune (through vaccination or previous infections)
Thing threshold_effect Q736798
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herd immunity

Summary

herd immunity is a threshold effect[1]. It draws 257 Wikipedia views per month (threshold_effect category, ranking #1 of 2).[2]

Key Facts

  • herd immunity's video is recorded as Herdenimmunität.webm[3].
  • herd immunity's image is recorded as Herd immunity.svg[4].
  • herd immunity's instance of is recorded as threshold effect[5].
  • herd immunity's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh2020012267[6].
  • herd immunity's subclass of is recorded as targeted immunization strategy[7].
  • herd immunity's Commons category is recorded as Herd immunity[8].
  • herd immunity's MeSH descriptor ID is recorded as D032521[9].
  • herd immunity's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 78119[10].
  • herd immunity's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lz32[11].
  • herd immunity's MeSH tree code is recorded as G12.450.400[12].
  • herd immunity's time of earliest written record is recorded as +1923-00-00T00:00:00Z[13].
  • herd immunity's facet of is recorded as health risk[14].
  • herd immunity's facet of is recorded as immunity[15].
  • herd immunity's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as science/herd-immunity[16].
  • herd immunity's studied by is recorded as epidemiology[17].
  • herd immunity's UMLS CUI is recorded as C1135927[18].
  • herd immunity's NE.se ID is recorded as flockimmunitet[19].
  • herd immunity's Quora topic ID is recorded as Herd-Immunity[20].
  • herd immunity's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as herd-immunity[21].
  • herd immunity's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as flokkimmunitet[22].
  • herd immunity's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as WikiProject COVID-19[23].
  • herd immunity's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 106192422[24].
  • herd immunity's Lex ID is recorded as flokimmunitet[25].
  • herd immunity's Namuwiki ID is recorded as 집단 면역[26].
  • herd immunity's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C106192422[27].

Why It Matters

herd immunity draws 257 Wikipedia views per month (threshold_effect category, ranking #1 of 2).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
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  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . WikiUMLS: Aligning UMLS to Wikipedia via Cross-lingual Neural Ranking. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). herd immunity. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/herd-immunity
MLA “herd immunity.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 3 May. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/herd-immunity.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_herd-immunity_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{herd immunity}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/herd-immunity}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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