Effective vaccine allocation strategies, balancing economy with infection control against COVID-19 in Japan.

ABSTRACT: Due to COVID-19, many countries including Japan have implemented a suspension of economic activities for infection control. It has contributed to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 but caused severe economic losses. Today, several promising vaccines have been developed and are already being distributed in some countries. Therefore, we evaluated various vaccine and intensive countermeasure strategies with constraint of economic loss using SEIR model to obtain knowledge of how to balance economy with infection control in Japan. Our main results were that the vaccination strategy that prioritized younger generation was better in terms of deaths when a linear relationship between lockdown intensity and acceptable economic loss was assumed. On the other hand, when a non-linearity relationship

SUBMITTER: Sunohara S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8412346 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature