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ReviewInterface focus2025

Equity considerations in COVID-19 vaccine allocation modelling: a methodological study.

Eva Rumpler, Marc Lipsitch

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Review in Interface focus, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Closing the Gap in Race-based Inequities for Seasonal Influenza Hospitalizations: A Modeling Study.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Eva RumplerDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2223-2681
Marc LipsitchDepartment of Epidemiology, Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1504-9213

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We conducted a methodological study of COVID-19 vaccine allocation modelling papers, specifically looking for publications that considered equity. We found that most models did not take equity into account, with the vast majority of publications presenting aggregated results and no results by any subgroup (e.g. age, race, geography, etc.). We then provide examples of how modelling can be useful to answer equity questions, and highlight some of the findings from the publications that did. Finally, we describe eight considerations that seem important to consider when including equity in future vaccine allocation models.

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COVID-19demographicsequityreviewvaccine allocationvaccine prioritization

Identifiers

PMID41017906
PMCPMC12464572

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