How the Timing of Annual COVID-19 Vaccination of Nursing Home Residents and Staff Affects Its Value.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To evaluate the epidemiologic, clinical, and economic value of an annual nursing home (NH) COVID-19 vaccine campaign and the impact of when vaccination starts.

Design

Agent-based model representing a typical NH.

Setting and participants

NH residents and staff.

Methods

We used the model representing an NH with 100 residents, its staff, their interactions, COVID-19 spread, and its health and economic outcomes to evaluate the epidemiologic, clinical, and economic value of varying schedules of annual COVID-19 vaccine campaigns.

Results

Across a range of scenarios with a 60% vaccine efficacy that wanes starting 4 months after protection onset, vaccination was cost saving or cost-effective when initiated in the late summer or early fall. Annual vacc

SUBMITTER: Bartsch SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10990766 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature