ArticleCommunications medicine2022
The importance of sustained compliance with physical distancing during COVID-19 vaccination rollout.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Predictive models for health outcomes due to SARS-CoV-2, including the effect of vaccination: a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- New methodology to assess the excess burden of antibiotic resistance using country-specific parameters: a case study regardingBMJ open · 2023Pooled it
- Mechanics of pandemics.EClinicalMedicine · 2026Review
- Rapid Epidemiological Data Collection on Social Media for COVID-19: Comparative Study Between Online Surveys and Conventional Cohorts.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Observational
- Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Mapping the intersection of demographics, behavior, and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic: an observational cohort study.BMC global and public health · 2025Article
- Impact of adherence and stringency on the effectiveness of lockdown measures: A modelling study.PloS one · 2025Article
- The importance of sustained compliance with physical distancing during COVID-19 vaccination rollout.Communications medicine · 2022Article
- Same Pandemic Yet Different COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-Out Rates in Two Small European Islands: A Comparison between Cyprus and Malta.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Public health implications of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern: a rapid scoping review.BMJ open · 2021Article
- The fastest national COVID vaccination in Europe - Malta's strategies.Health sciences review (Oxford, England) · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundIncreasing vaccination coverage against SARS-CoV-2 enabled relaxation of lockdowns in many countries in Europe. As the vaccination rollouts progressed, the public health authorities were seeking recommendations on the continuation of physical distancing measures during ongoing vaccination rollouts. Compliance with these measures was declining while more transmissible virus variants have emerged.
methodsWe used a SARS-CoV-2 transmission model to investigate the feedback between compliance, infection incidence, and vaccination coverage. We quantified our findings in terms of cumulative number of new hospitalisations three and six months after the start of vaccination.
resultsOur results suggest that the combination of fast waning compliance in non-vaccinated individuals, low compliance in vaccinated individuals, low vaccine efficacy against infection and more transmissible virus variants may result in a higher cumulative number of new hospitalisations than in a situation without vaccination. These adverse effects can be alleviated by deploying behavioural interventions that should preferably target both vaccinated and non-vaccinated individuals. The choice of the most appropriate intervention depends on vaccination rate and vaccine efficacy against infection.
conclusionsSupplementary behavioural interventions aiming to boost compliance to physical distancing measures can improve the outcome of vaccination programmes, until vaccination coverage is sufficiently high. For optimal results, these interventions should be selected based on the vaccine efficacy against infection and expected vaccination rate. While we considered the dynamics of SARS-CoV-2, the qualitative effects of the interplay between infectious disease spread and behavior on the outcomes of a vaccination programme can be used as guidance in a future similar pandemic.
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