Vaccination and testing of the border workforce for COVID-19 and risk of community outbreaks: a modelling study.

ABSTRACT: Throughout 2020 and the first part of 2021, Australia and New Zealand have followed a COVID-19 elimination strategy. Both countries require overseas arrivals to quarantine in government-managed facilities at the border. In both countries, community outbreaks of COVID-19 have been started via infection of a border worker. This workforce is rightly being prioritized for vaccination. However, although vaccines are highly effective in preventing disease, their effectiveness in preventing infection with and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is less certain. There is a danger that vaccination could prevent symptoms of COVID-19 but not prevent transmission. Here, we use a stochastic model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission and testing to investigate the effect that vaccination of border workers has on the risk

SUBMITTER: Plank MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8479330 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature