Impact of vaccination by priority group on UK deaths, hospital admissions and intensive care admissions from COVID-19.

ABSTRACT: National (and global) vaccination provides an opportunity to control the COVID-19 pandemic, which disease suppression by societal lockdown and individual behavioural changes will not. We modelled how vaccination through the UK's vaccine priority groups impacts deaths, hospital and ICU admissions from COVID-19. We used the UK COVID-19 vaccines delivery plan and publicly available data to estimate UK population by age group and vaccination priority group, including frontline health and social care workers and individuals deemed 'extreme clinical vulnerable' or 'high risk'. Using published data on numbers and distributions of COVID-19-related hospital and ICU admissions and deaths, we modelled the impact of vaccination by age group. We then modified the model to account for hospital and ICU a

SUBMITTER: Cook TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8013188 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature