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ArticlemedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences2022

Comparative performance of between-population vaccine allocation strategies with applications for emerging pandemics.

Keya Joshi, Eva Rumpler, Lee Kennedy-Shaffer, Rafia Bosan, Marc Lipsitch

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Article in medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Keya JoshiCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts.
Eva RumplerCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts.
Lee Kennedy-ShafferCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts.
Rafia BosanCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts.
Marc LipsitchCenter for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, 02115 Boston, Massachusetts.

Funding

Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases and BiodefenseT32AI007535 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (SCH OF PUBLIC HLTH) · PI GRAD, YONATAN H, MURRAY, MEGAN B · 1998 to 2025
$4.8M
Casual, Statistical and Mathematical Modeling with Serologic DataU01CA261277 · NCI · HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH · PI HANAGE, WILLIAM, LIPSITCH, MARC · 2020 to 2023
$2.8M
NCI NIH HHS U01 CA261277NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007535
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vaccine allocation decisions during emerging pandemics have proven to be challenging due to competing ethical, practical, and political considerations. Complicating decision making, policy makers need to consider vaccine allocation strategies that balance needs both within and between populations. Due to limited vaccine stockpiles, vaccine doses should be allocated in locations where their impact will be maximized. Using a susceptible-exposed-infectious-recovered (SEIR) model we examine optimal vaccine allocation decisions across two populations considering the impact of population size, underlying immunity, continuous vaccine roll-out, heterogeneous population risk structure, and differences in disease transmissibility. We find that in the context of an emerging pathogen where many epidemiologic characteristics might not be known, equal vaccine allocation between populations performs optimally in most scenarios. In the specific case considering heterogeneous population risk structure, first targeting individuals at higher risk of transmission or death due to infection leads to equal resource allocation across populations.

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emerging pathogenpandemicsvaccine allocationvaccine distribution

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PMID34212161
PMCPMC8246345

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