NATURAL HERD IMMUNITY VIS-À-VIS INDIAN SOCIETY IN COVID-19 PANDEMIC SITUATION

Abstract

In the absence of any operative treatment or biomedical prevention, people are adopting various alternatives globally including
lockdown to dispose of the pandemic disease i.e. Covid-19. However, prolong lockdown is not feasible for an overpopulated
developing country like India. Some are in favor of adopting natural herd immunity as the younger population of India is
much high to tackle the present situation. The health infrastructure of India is insufficient to withstand the burden from
natural herd immunity. The information related to human immunity system against this novel pandemic disease COVID19 is also very scanty. So expose of people for development of natural herd immunity is a very dangerous strategy.
However, through the restricted scientifically partial exposure to natural herd immunity the virus will complete building
of its own pool in the community, and the peaks are most likely to arrive during this period. It seems after this peak,
natural herd immunity may develop and we will be benefitted within few months.