Modelling the Interplay between Responsive Individual Vaccination Decisions and the Spread of SARS-CoV-2.

ABSTRACT: The uptake of COVID-19 vaccines remains low despite their high effectiveness. Epidemic models that represent decision-making psychology can provide insight into the potential impact of vaccine promotion interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We coupled a network-based mathematical model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Georgia, USA with a social-psychological vaccination decision-making model in which vaccine side effects, post-vaccination infections, and other unidentified community-level factors could "nudge" individuals towards vaccine resistance while hospitalization spikes could nudge them towards willingness. Combining an increased probability of hospitalization-prompted resistant-to-willing switches with a decreased probability of willing-to-resistant switches prompted

SUBMITTER: Wallrafen-Sam K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473817 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature