The role of childrens' vaccination for COVID-19-Pareto-optimal allocations of vaccines.

ABSTRACT: COVID-19 vaccines have been approved for children of age five and older in many countries. However, there is an ongoing debate as to whether children should be vaccinated and at what priority. In this work, we use mathematical modeling and optimization to study how vaccine allocations to different age groups effect epidemic outcomes. In particular, we consider the effect of extending vaccination campaigns to include the vaccination of children. When vaccine availability is limited, we consider Pareto-optimal allocations with respect to competing measures of the number of infections and mortality and systematically study the trade-offs among them. In the scenarios considered, when some weight is given to the number of infections, we find that it is optimal to allocate vaccines to adolescent

SUBMITTER: Gavish N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8906616 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature