Sustained suppression | Nature Biomedical Engineering

Sustained suppression | Nature Biomedical Engineering

How to suppress further COVID-19 outbreaks

The only plausible way to achieve herd immunity is through mass vaccination, argues a Nature Biomedical Engineering editorial. The alternative — letting the virus spread naturally at an infection fatality rate of something around 0.5–1% — implies that millions would die before transmission slows down. The journal outlines why widespread testing, technology-aided contact tracing, case isolation and the quarantining of contacts will continue to be essential to sustainedly suppress further outbreaks. (Nature Biomedical Engineering | 7 min read)