Optimal vaccine allocation for COVID-19 in the Netherlands: A data-driven prioritization.

ABSTRACT: For the control of COVID-19, vaccination programmes provide a long-term solution. The amount of available vaccines is often limited, and thus it is crucial to determine the allocation strategy. While mathematical modelling approaches have been used to find an optimal distribution of vaccines, there is an excessively large number of possible allocation schemes to be simulated. Here, we propose an algorithm to find a near-optimal allocation scheme given an intervention objective such as minimization of new infections, hospitalizations, or deaths, where multiple vaccines are available. The proposed principle for allocating vaccines is to target subgroups with the largest reduction in the outcome of interest. We use an approximation method to reconstruct the age-specific transmission intensity

SUBMITTER: Miura F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8699630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature