immunity

It was as if talking money, and earning it, would act as a vaccine that endowed our family with immunity against all those nasty lethal airborne pathogens.

Still, infections are at relative lows lately thanks in part to acquired immunity from infections and vaccines.

In a Monday statement, Kennedy said that vaccines “not only protect individual children from measles, but also contribute to community immunity, protecting those who are unable to be vaccinated due to medical reasons.”

The current guidelines were developed at a time when many mothers had immunity from measles infections.

Pina’s lawyers argued that he and the San Jose Police Department were protected under qualified immunity, a legal principle that shields government officials from most civil suits.