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The Potential Economic Impact of the Updated COVID-19 mRNA Fall 2023 Vaccines in Japan.

Kelly Fust, Keya Joshi, Ekkehard Beck, Michael Maschio, Michele Kohli, Amy Lee, Yuriko Hagiwara, Nicolas Van de Velde, Ataru Igarashi

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Article in Vaccines, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Kelly FustQuadrant Health Economics Inc., 92 Cottonwood Crescent, Cambridge, ON N1T 2J1, Canada.
Keya JoshiModerna, Inc., 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Ekkehard BeckModerna, Inc., 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Michael MaschioQuadrant Health Economics Inc., 92 Cottonwood Crescent, Cambridge, ON N1T 2J1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6595-3019
Michele KohliQuadrant Health Economics Inc., 92 Cottonwood Crescent, Cambridge, ON N1T 2J1, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6032-9356
Amy LeeQuadrant Health Economics Inc., 92 Cottonwood Crescent, Cambridge, ON N1T 2J1, Canada.ORCID 0009-0007-8361-0654
Yuriko HagiwaraModerna, Inc., Kamiyacho Trust Tower, 4-1-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6923, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3754-8278
Nicolas Van de VeldeModerna, Inc., 325 Binney Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Ataru IgarashiGraduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
Moderna Therapeutics (United States) · USThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

Moderna Therapeutics (United States) N/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This analysis estimates the economic and clinical impact of a Moderna updated COVID-19 mRNA Fall 2023 vaccine for adults ≥18 years in Japan. A previously developed Susceptible-Exposed-Infected-Recovered (SEIR) model with a one-year analytic time horizon (September 2023-August 2024) and consequences decision tree were used to estimate symptomatic infections, COVID-19 related hospitalizations, deaths, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), costs, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) for a Moderna updated Fall 2023 vaccine versus no additional vaccination, and versus a Pfizer-BioNTech updated mRNA Fall 2023 vaccine. The Moderna vaccine is predicted to prevent 7.2 million symptomatic infections, 272,100 hospitalizations and 25,600 COVID-19 related deaths versus no vaccine. In the base case (healthcare perspective), the ICER was ¥1,300,000/QALY gained ($9400 USD/QALY gained). Sensitivity analyses suggest results are most affected by COVID-19 incidence, initial vaccine effectiveness (VE), and VE waning against infection. Assuming the relative VE between both bivalent vaccines apply to updated Fall 2023 vaccines, the base case suggests the Moderna version will prevent an additional 1,100,000 symptomatic infections, 27,100 hospitalizations, and 2600 deaths compared to the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The updated Moderna vaccine is expected to be highly cost-effective at a ¥5 million willingness-to-pay threshold across a wide range of scenarios.

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coronaviruscost-effectivenessCOVID-19JapanSARS-CoV-2vaccination

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PMID38675816
PMCPMC11054439
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