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KEILAR: It was notable that the U.S. surgeon general, Jerome Adams, today dismissed herd immunity as a public health strategy. (newsbusters.org)

Even if so-called herd immunity is achieved, there is never full protection against disease. (thedailybeast.com)
Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. (bvsalud.org)

It's How Ya Herd Cows! (lewrockwell.com)
One most striking example is how cowboys move cows and just how governments control the human herd. (lewrockwell.com)
Another expert explained the phenomenon this way: "If a large enough proportion of the herd - be it cows or mice or people - are resistant to a disease, it's very difficult for the disease to spread," said Uriel Kitron. (chicagotribune.com)
The increased number of cows and heifers sold for slaughter means herd depletion will continue, and building it back will take years. (foxbusiness.com)
As a police chopper flew overhead, a herd of cows provided law enforcement with a big assist. (newschannel5.com)
California had its driest year ever in 2013, threatening the state's cattle herds and dairy cows. (pressherald.com)
While slaughter has been the main factor driving herds lower, the rates are now slowing as more ranchers hold back cows to increase breeding. (pressherald.com)
RF 2J9WNJH - Herd of cows. (alamy.com)
RF 2J9WNJB - Herd of cows. (alamy.com)

Cattle Herds, fections or bacteremia. (cdc.gov)
Social proof is at the root of what's been dubbed herd mentality in humans, with every "cattle" and "sheep" reference that goes along with it. (copyblogger.com)
U.S. cattle producers are sending higher numbers of breeding stock to the sale barn, and some are liquidating their herds entirely, signaling a trend that analysts say will likely push already-elevated beef prices even higher in the not-too-distant future. (foxbusiness.com)
When you look at those who make a decision to send their cattle to market to either thin down their herd or completely eliminate their herd, it is always going to be attributed to the increase of their input costs. (foxbusiness.com)
Cowboy Houdini is one of the newest steers you can see at the Fort Worth Herd's twice-daily cattle drives. (fortworth.com)
It cuts your herd size down because people have to sell off to provide for the cattle that are left. (pressherald.com)
The cattle herd in the United States, the world's largest beef producer, fell to the smallest in 63 years, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data released Friday. (pressherald.com)
RM DWTB3M - A herd of Limousin cattle in the Limousin region of France. (alamy.com)
Members of a suckler herd of cattle. (alamy.com)

He just joined the Fort Worth Herd on November 9, 2022, but is already finding his place in the Stockyards. (fortworth.com)

This paper provides an overview of the recent theoretical and empirical research on herd behavior in financial markets. (springer.com)
It looks at what precisely is meant by herding, the causes of herd behavior, the success of existing studies in identifying the phenomenon, and the effect that herding has on financial markets. (springer.com)
We study herd behavior in a laboratory Þnancial market where a sequence of subjects trades an asset whose value is unknown. (repec.org)
Herd Behavior in a Laboratory Financial Market ," Experimental 0502002, University Library of Munich, Germany. (repec.org)
Herd Behavior in a Laboratory Financial Market ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 95(5), pages 1427-1443, December. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Internet Experiment ," American Economic Review , American Economic Association, vol. 95(5), pages 1403-1426, December. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment ," Experimental 0210001, University Library of Munich, Germany. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment ," Econometric Society 2004 North American Winter Meetings 55, Econometric Society. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment ," Discussion Paper Series of SFB/TR 15 Governance and the Efficiency of Economic Systems 7, Free University of Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Bonn, University of Mannheim, University of Munich. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Internet Experiment ," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series qt6zf5469f, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets: An Internet Experiment ," Bonn Econ Discussion Papers 25/2002, University of Bonn, Bonn Graduate School of Economics (BGSE). (repec.org)
Herding and Contrarian Behavior in Financial Markets - An Internet Experiment ," Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 177, Royal Economic Society. (repec.org)
Herd Behavior and Contagion in Financial Markets ," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics , De Gruyter, vol. 8(1), pages 1-56, October. (repec.org)

The purpose of noncompetitive herding tests is to offer herding breed owners a standardized gauge by which a dog's basic instinct and trainability are measured. (akc.org)
Problem solving, quick thinking and agile movement are in a herding dog's DNA. (eukanuba.com)

The establishment of the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub will provide a national facility for dairy herd health education, research and consultancy and is an important strategic development for the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. (ucd.ie)
Dairy herd health is an important element of UCD's One Health initiative which is focused on maximising the health and well-being of people, animals and the environment. (ucd.ie)
We are looking forward to collaborating with Bimeda as an industry partner in research activities focused on furthering our understanding of the health of dairy herds. (ucd.ie)
The development of the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub will also support the provision of UCD's flagship distance-learning graduate programme, the Graduate Certificate in Dairy Herd Health. (ucd.ie)
This programme equips practising veterinarians with the latest tools for analysis of herd data, as well as practical herd evaluation skills, which they can apply in developing holistic herd-level solutions to ensure healthy and profitable dairy herds. (ucd.ie)

She says newspapers often spur the herd investment mentality. (wordspy.com)

The term has been fraught with misinterpretation ever since, not the least because the percentage of people who need to be protected against a disease to achieve "herd immunity" varies substantially for different diseases, usually depending on how easily the disease can spread person-to-person. (thedailybeast.com)
And new elephants in their herds are often retested or isolated temporarily to reduce the transmission of the disease. (sas.com)

44. Eight bison -- four calves and their mothers -- were released in mid-March on public lands in northern Colorado, bringing the total number of animals in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd to 44. (sciencedaily.com)

The Bureau of Land Management is set to begin a controversial roundup targeting a photogenic Utah herd of wild horses this week over the strident objections of horse advocates who contend the BLM's horse program is a colossal waste of tax dollars and inhumane. (sltrib.com)
While the number of new cases appears to be declining, achieving herd immunity has proved controversial. (cnbc.com)

The initial test is called Instinct Test and it is a test for herding breeds, Rottweilers, Samoyeds, Standard and Giant Schnauzers, Pyrenean Shepherds, Swedish Vallhunds, Norwegian Buhunds and Greater Swiss Mountain Dogs. (akc.org)
Learn what nutrients herding dogs need to help them round up livestock and a collection of ribbons. (eukanuba.com)
Dogs either trained to herd livestock animals, or belonging to breeds that have been developed for herding. (bvsalud.org)

The purpose of the competitive herding trial program is to preserve and develop the herding skills inherent in the herding breeds and to demonstrate that they can perform the useful functions for which they were originally bred. (akc.org)
Although herding trials are artificial simulations of pastoral or farm situations, they are standardized tests to measure and develop the characteristics of the herding breeds. (akc.org)

Elephants are social animals that live in close contact with others in herds, making transmission likely within a herd. (sas.com)
These prehistoric footsteps, likely the work of some 13 four-tusked elephant ancestors, are the earliest direct evidence of how the ancestors of modern elephants interacted socially, and the oldest evidence of an elephant herd. (newstrackindia.com)
Analysis of the footsteps suggests they belonged to a herd of at least 13 elephants of different sizes and ages that walked through mud, leaving behind tracks that hardened, were buried, and then re-exposed by erosion. (newstrackindia.com)

Tegnell said sampling and modeling data indicated that 20% of Stockholm's population is already immune to the virus, and that 'in a few weeks' time we might reach herd immunity and we believe that is why we're seeing a slow decline in cases, in spite of sampling (testing for the coronavirus) more and more. (cnbc.com)

RM BXKT7K - Upland beef suckler herd in pasture. (alamy.com)

Surveys of veterinarians and organic livestock producers performed at Iowa State University show that veterinarians need to be more involved in organic herd health. (hobbyfarms.com)

The number of Zika infections has dropped dramatically in Florida this summer, and scientists say herd immunity may be the reason why. (chicagotribune.com)
The controversy emerged after a small group of scientists argued the United States should pursue herd immunity as a policy - that is, let most people go back to normal and ride out the pandemic until enough people have had the virus and are immune to it that the spread naturally stops. (wbur.org)

Prevent illness from spreading to the animals on your farm by implementing these herd-management practices. (hobbyfarms.com)

Ongoing drought conditions are resulting in a significant number of wild horses moving outside the Onaqui [herd management] boundary in search of forage and water," states a recent letter the agency wrote to one advocacy group. (sltrib.com)

While waiting for your rulebook to arrive, you can contact your National breed club or a local herding breed club by going to the club search section of the AKC website. (akc.org)

People were getting confused and thinking you're never going to get the infections down until you reach this mystical level of herd immunity, whatever that number is," he said. (thedailybeast.com)
Florida saw a big drop in Zika infections this summer, and experts point to herd immunity as the reason why. (chicagotribune.com)
Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections. (bmj.com)

What Dr. Fauci said to the New York Times this week, in a front-page article with the grim headline "Herd Immunity' Dims with Pace of Vaccinations" (online it was an even grimmer "Reaching 'Herd Immunity' Is Unlikely in the U.S., Experts Now Believe") was more nuanced, perhaps too nuanced. (thedailybeast.com)

Herding tests and trials are sports and all participants should be guided by the principles of good sportsmanship both in and outside of the test and trial arenas. (akc.org)
The first step to getting started in Herding Test and Trials is to request a rulebook from AKC so that you are familiar with what will be required of you and your dog at these events. (akc.org)

Incessant incremental media grooming is exactly how elite cowboys fence the public herd! (lewrockwell.com)

While we may not know precisely the level of vaccination coverage that would confer herd immunity for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, it could exceed 80 percent. (thedailybeast.com)
The former director of CDC's Immunization Program, Dr. Walt Orenstein, explained that the goal of a vaccination campaign is to achieve "community protection," a term he found interchangeable with "herd immunity. (thedailybeast.com)
Herd immunity among a population, usually achieved through vaccination, is reached when around 60% of citizens are deemed immune. (cnbc.com)

It's a really good feeling to see a herd grow and to know that the animals from our research are going to have a real impact, not only in our herd but as we produce animals in this herd and help support other conservation herds," she said. (sciencedaily.com)
We are pleased to see the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd thriving and the public response so positive for this collaborative effort," said Meegan Flenniken, planning and resource program manager for Larimer County Department of Natural Resources. (sciencedaily.com)
She and the project partners hope to one day have 100 bison in the Laramie Foothills Bison Conservation Herd. (sciencedaily.com)

These horses are among the most photographed wild herds because they are so easy to approach, yet they still behave like wild animals, to the delight of observers. (sltrib.com)
Animals in a suckler herd, outdoors, free range. (alamy.com)

Even if herd immunity is behind the drop in Zika cases, infection experts noted it doesn't guarantee that new outbreaks won't occur, as people who have not been exposed to the virus become infected. (chicagotribune.com)

BLM officials say the Onaqui herd management area (HMA), like the 18 others in Utah, is overpopulated with horses and removal is the best way to ensure both the health of the herd and the range. (sltrib.com)
Wen lied by claiming that herd immunity "goes against the consensus of entire medical, scientific and public health community" and Keilar proclaimed that "it's not a public health strategy. (newsbusters.org)
WEN: Well, it seems that it's because there is this disagreement within the Trump administration and we have people like Scott Atlas who has the President's ear and is advocating for strategies like herd immunity, which, by the way, goes against the consensus of entire medical, scientific and public health community, because herd immunity is not a strategy. (newsbusters.org)
Keilar gushed over Wen's attack on Atlas and herd immunity by exclaiming that herd immunity is "not a public health strategy, it's a white flag. (newsbusters.org)
University College Dublin has announced the commencement of a €4.8 million development project to construct a new state-of-the-art facility incorporating the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre (ca. 890 sq.m.) and the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub (ca. 120 sq.m.) at UCD Lyons Farm. (ucd.ie)
Professor Alex Evans, UCD School of Agriculture and Food Science said, 'It is so exciting to see the development of the AgTechUCD Innovation Centre and the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub at UCD Lyons Farm. (ucd.ie)
Donal Tierney, Chairman of Bimeda Animal Health said, 'We are delighted to be associated with the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub and the contribution it will make to the development of the Agritech sector in Ireland. (ucd.ie)
Our association with UCD Lyons Farm in establishing the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub recognises the contribution the agricultural sector has made to the success of Bimeda worldwide. (ucd.ie)
Professor Michael Doherty, Dean and Head, UCD School of Veterinary Medicine added, 'We are delighted that construction of the UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub has commenced at UCD Lyons Farm. (ucd.ie)
He noted, 'In addition The UCD Bimeda Herd Health Hub will support the delivery of state-of-the art training to undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine. (ucd.ie)

The herd, conformism, mediocrity, public opinion: a civilisation in which community attempts suffocate all individual inspiration, and which therefore seems to row in the opposite direction. (bvsalud.org)
Although Nietzsche often uses collective life merely as a negative pole for more effectively emphasising the individual, his provocative words - pushed to the limits of the inexorable victory of the herd and of the paradoxical impossibility of all that is 'public' - offer us a direct testimony of the tragic way of life of the man of his time. (bvsalud.org)

We know that vaccinating a large part of the population against SARS-CoV-2 can reduce exposure even for people who remain unvaccinated, which is after all the main point of herd immunity. (thedailybeast.com)
We will need to live with this virus, yet suppress its infectivity and reduce exposures from people "outside the herd" that put non-immunized people at risk. (thedailybeast.com)
In practical terms, herd immunity means that people traveling to the United States from South America and the Caribbean may have been infected with Zika in the past, but they can no longer pass the virus on to mosquitoes that might pass it on to local residents. (chicagotribune.com)

A catastrophic event 72.5 million years ago left a herd of giant, horned dinosaurs buried to become fossils. (livescience.com)
This would be the fourth time in 15 years that this herd has been targeted, yet its numbers remain far above the 210 the BLM claims the range can support. (sltrib.com)

Benjamin Alexander Herd (born 21 June 1985) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. (wikipedia.org)

However, following the conclusion of the season, Herd left the club. (wikipedia.org)

Critics argue that this herd immunity approach is well outside the mainstream of science and would have a catastrophic death toll. (wbur.org)

But perhaps we should think twice before abandoning the idea of "herd immunity. (thedailybeast.com)
Are you interested in getting up-close-and-personal with the Fort Worth Herd but have no idea where to start?Here are five ways to see the drovers and longhorns. (fortworth.com)

But now, the country's chief epidemiologist said the strategy appears to be working and that 'herd immunity' could be reached in the capital Stockholm in a matter of weeks. (cnbc.com)
Herd immunity is not a scientifically or ethically justifiable strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone #COVID19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)

The Onaqui herd is a good candidate for PZP because the drug can be administered with dart guns, obviating the need to gather the mares off the range to give them the injection. (sltrib.com)

Herd signed for Southern League Premier Division side Dunstable Town in the summer of 2014, following the club's second promotion in a row from the Southern League Division One Central, immediately being handed the captaincy by manager Darren Croft. (wikipedia.org)
In the summer of 2009, Herd helped to coach Shropshire youngsters, along with teammates David Edwards, Gavin Cowan, Stuart Whitehead and Ben Davies. (wikipedia.org)

Also, these ancient pachyderms might have structured themselves along lines of sex just as their modern relatives do, with the males leaving the herd to live alone. (newstrackindia.com)

He believes in a contrarian approach to share investment, in other words avoiding herd investments. (wordspy.com)

In major parts of Sweden, around Stockholm, we have reached a plateau (in new cases) and we're already seeing the effect of herd immunity and in a few weeks' time we'll see even more of the effects of that. (cnbc.com)

The 2008-09 season started well for Herd, but a suspension meant that he was replaced by Darren Moss. (wikipedia.org)

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