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ArticleVaccines2022

Population-Level Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Program in the United States: Causal Analysis Based on Structural Nested Mean Model.

Rui Wang, Jiahao Wang, Taojun Hu, Xiao-Hua Zhou

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Article in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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4citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.5field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rui WangDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5212-8362
Jiahao WangSchool of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7575-6580
Taojun HuDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.ORCID 0000-0003-4699-121X
Xiao-Hua ZhouDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
Peking University · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Though COVID-19 vaccines have shown high efficacy, real-world effectiveness at the population level remains unclear. Based on the longitudinal data on vaccination coverage and daily infection cases from fifty states in the United States from March to May 2021, causal analyses were conducted using structural nested mean models to estimate the population-level effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccination program against infection with the original strain. We found that in the US, every 1% increase of vaccination coverage rate reduced the weekly growth rate of COVID-19 confirmed cases by 1.02% (95% CI: 0.26%, 1.69%), and the estimated population-level effectiveness of the COVID-19 program was 63.9% (95% CI: 18.0%, 87.5%). In comparison to a no-vaccination scenario, the COVID-19 vaccination campaign averted 8.05 million infections through the study period. Scenario analyses show that a vaccination program with doubled vaccination speed or with more rapid vaccination speed at the early stages of the campaign would avert more infections and increase vaccine effectiveness. The COVID-19 vaccination program demonstrated a high population-level effectiveness and significantly reduced the disease burden in the US. Accelerating vaccine rollout, especially at an early stage of the campaign, is crucial for reducing COVID-19 infections.

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causal inferenceCOVID-19effectivenessstructural nested mean modelsvaccines

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PMID35632481
PMCPMC9144931
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