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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Assessing COVID-19 vaccination strategies in varied demographics using an individual-based model.

Noam Ben-Zuk, Yair Daon, Amit Sasson, Dror Ben-Adi, Amit Huppert, Daniel Nevo, Uri Obolski

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Noam Ben-ZukSchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Yair DaonSchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Amit SassonDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Dror Ben-AdiSchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Amit HuppertSchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Daniel NevoDepartment of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Uri ObolskiSchool of Public Health, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Tel Aviv University · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: New variants of SARS-CoV-2 are constantly discovered. Administration of COVID-19 vaccines and booster doses, combined with the application of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs Methods: We developed an individual-based model of COVID-19 dynamics that considers age-dependent parameters such as contact matrices, probabilities of symptomatic and severe disease, and households' age distribution. As a case study, we simulate outbreak dynamics under the demographic compositions of two Israeli cities with different household sizes and age distributions. We compare two vaccination strategies: vaccinate individuals in a currently prioritized age group, or dynamically prioritize neighborhoods with a high estimated reproductive number. Total infections and hospitalizations are used to compare the efficiency of the vaccination strategies under the two demographic structures, in conjunction with different NPIs. Results: We demonstrate the effectiveness of vaccination strategies targeting highly infected localities and of NPIs actively detecting asymptomatic infections. We further show that different optimal vaccination strategies exist for each sub-population's demographic composition and that their application is superior to a uniformly applied strategy. Conclusion: Our study emphasizes the importance of tailoring vaccination strategies to subpopulations' infection rates and to the unique characteristics of their demographics (e.g., household size and age distributions). The presented simulation framework and findings can help better design future responses against the following emerging variants.

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COVID-19COVID-19 VaccinesDemographyHumansSARS-CoV-2VaccinationCOVID-19 Vaccinesagent-based model (ABM)COVID- 19individual-base modelnon-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs)SARS-CoV-2vaccination strategies

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