‘Even though at that rate, herd immunity cannot be assumed, Ischgl’s population should be protected to a large extent,’ study leader Dorothee von Laer says
Ischgl, in Austria. Picture:KRETH/ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES.
Thousands of people were infected at the resort, which marketed itself as the “Ibiza of the Alps”, as the virus found a breeding ground in crowded apres-ski bars early in Austria's outbreak. “The seroprevalence of study participants from Ischgl is 42.4%,” the director of the Medical University of Innsbruck's Institute of Virology, Dorothee von Laer, who led the study, said in a statement by the university.
Seroprevalence is the number of people in a population who test positive for a specific disease based on blood serum specimens.
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