Evaluation of the United States COVID-19 vaccine allocation strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anticipating an initial shortage of vaccines for COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the United States developed priority vaccine allocations for specific demographic groups in the population. This study evaluates the performance of the CDC vaccine allocation strategy with respect to multiple potentially competing vaccination goals (minimizing mortality, cases, infections, and years of life lost (YLL)), under the same framework as the CDC allocation: four priority vaccination groups and population demographics stratified by age, comorbidities, occupation and living condition (congested or non-congested).

Methods and findings

We developed a compartmental disease model that incorporates key elements of the current pandemic including age-varying suscep

SUBMITTER: Islam MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8598051 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature