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Community immunity is also known as 'Herd immunity'. It is a form of incidental protection from various of contagious diseases, such as tuberculosis, meningitis, varicella and more. When there is a majority of a specific population have been inoculated against an infectious disease, then most of them are secured from that disease.


https://www.vaccines.gov/basics/protection/index.html