Age-targeted dose allocation can halve COVID-19 vaccine requirements

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Summary

An age-structured mathematical model is used to investigate the benefits of optimizing age-specific dose allocation to suppress the transmission, morbidity and mortality of SARS-CoV-2 and the associated disease, COVID-19 and shows that optimizing the allocation of vaccine doses can more than double their effectiveness.

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preprint
Published
2020-10-11
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Keywords

Herd immunity, Transmission (telecommunications), Disease, Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), Medicine

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