Closing the Gap in Race-based Inequities for Seasonal Influenza Hospitalizations: A Modeling Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) communities bear a disproportional burden of seasonal influenza hospitalizations in the United States.

Methods

We developed a race-stratified (5 racial-ethnic groups) agent-based model of seasonal influenza transmission and quantify the effects of 5 idealized interventions aimed at reducing inequities in symptomatic infections and hospitalizations. The interventions assumed (1) equalized vaccination rates, (2) equalized comorbidities, (3) work-risk distribution proportional to the distribution of the population, (4) reduced work contacts for all, or (5) a combination of equalizing vaccination rates and comorbidities and reducing work contacts.

Results

Our analysis suggests that symptomatic infections coul

SUBMITTER: Stafford E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12497953 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature