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  1. vaccine
    injection of weakened or dead microbes to create antibodies
    If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity.
  2. collective
    forming a whole or aggregate
    If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity.
  3. vaccination
    taking a substance, usually by injection, against a disease
    If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity.
  4. immunity
    the condition in which an organism can resist disease
    If we imagine the action of a vaccine not just in terms of how it affects a single body, but also in terms of how it affects the collective body of a community, it is fair to think of vaccination as a kind of banking of immunity.
  5. donation
    a voluntary gift made to some worthwhile cause
    Contributions to this bank are donations to those who cannot or will not be protected by their own immunity.
  6. principle
    a basic truth or law or assumption
    This is the principle of herd immunity, and it is through herd immunity that mass vaccination becomes far more effective than individual vaccination.
  7. herd
    a crowd of ordinary or undistinguished persons or things
    This is the principle of herd immunity, and it is through herd immunity that mass vaccination becomes far more effective than individual vaccination.
  8. influenza
    an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
    Any given vaccine can fail to produce immunity in an individual, and some vaccines, like an influenza vaccine, are less effective than others.
  9. vaccinate
    produce immunity in by inoculation
    But when people are vaccinated with even a relatively ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread, sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity.
  10. virus
    infectious agent that replicates itself within living hosts
    But when people are vaccinated with even a relatively ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread, sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity.
  11. host
    an animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite
    But when people are vaccinated with even a relatively ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread, sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity.
  12. cease
    have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense
    But when people are vaccinated with even a relatively ineffective vaccine, viruses have trouble moving from host to host and cease to spread, sparing both the unvaccinated and those in whom vaccination has not produced immunity.
  13. contract
    be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
    This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.
  14. measles
    a contagious viral disease marked by distinct red spots
    This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.
  15. vulnerable
    capable of being wounded or hurt
    But a vaccinated person surrounded by bodies that host disease is left vulnerable to vaccine failure or fading immunity.
  16. boundary
    the line indicating the limit or extent of something
    The boundaries between our bodies begin to dissolve here.
Created on Sun Jan 12 16:54:45 EST 2020 (updated Sun Jan 12 16:58:00 EST 2020)

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