Equitable bivalent booster allocation strategies against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants in US cities with large Hispanic communities: The case of El Paso County, Texas.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 is a disease that disproportionately impacts the Hispanic population, due to the prevalence of certain risk factors and the high number of essential workers in this community. In this work, we analyze the vaccination strategies that would minimize the COVID-19 health disparities in El Paso County, TX, in the context of the emergence of a new highly transmissible and immune-escaping SARS-CoV-2 variant. We stratify an age-structure stochastic SEIR model that tracks the evolution of immunity derived from infections and vaccination according to Hispanic vs non-Hispanic ethnicity and parameterize it to the demographic, health and immunization data of El Paso County, TX. After fitting the model, the results show that increasing vaccination with bivalent boosters by five-fold in anticipa

SUBMITTER: Owusu-Dampare F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10400804 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature