Number needed to vaccinate for COVID-19 booster doses: a valuable metric to inform vaccination strategies.

Shuo Feng, E Lin, Benjamin J Cowling

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Article in Lancet regional health. Americas, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

The Impact of Vaccination on COVID-19 Outcomes in Vietnam.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Shuo FengOxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

E LinDepartment of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden.

Benjamin J CowlingWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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PMID37397875

DOI10.1016/j.lana.2023.100548

PMCPMC10304837

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