herd immunity

Millions of individual Americans’ immune systems now recognize the virus and are primed to fight it off if they encounter omicron, or even another variant.

Florida wrote natural immunity into state law this week as GOP lawmakers elsewhere are pushing similar measures to sidestep vaccine mandates.

On the "Florida Roundup," Dr. Michael Lauzardo, deputy director of the University of Florida's Emerging Pathogens Institute, talks about COVID-19 "passports" and the possibility of achieving herd immunity.

Fauci said once the vaccine becomes widely available, if by "April, May, June, July, we get as many people vaccinated as possible, we could really turn this thing around" by the end of 2021.

For a term that’s at least 100 years old, “herd immunity” has gained new life in 2020.It starred in many headlines last month, when reports surfaced that…

A growing number of researchers think until there's an effective vaccine, the coronavirus will simply persist in the population, causing illness indefinitely. Better to squelch the spread instead.

As cases of the coronavirus surge across Florida, some suggest herd immunity could be a solution. It's the idea of fighting a disease by making a...

A new online measles simulator shows how quickly the disease could spread in Florida.

A mother in Greenville, S.C., was startled by how many parents were opting not to immunize their kids, so she started her own group to counter misinformation about childhood vaccinations.