Assessing Age-Specific Vaccination Strategies and Post-vaccination Reopening Policies for COVID-19 Control Using SEIR Modeling Approach.

ABSTRACT: As the availability of COVID-19 vaccines, it is badly needed to develop vaccination guidelines to prioritize the vaccination delivery in order to effectively stop COVID-19 epidemic and minimize the loss. We evaluated the effect of age-specific vaccination strategies on the number of infections and deaths using an SEIR model, considering the age structure and social contact patterns for different age groups for each of different countries. In general, the vaccination priority should be given to those younger people who are active in social contacts to minimize the number of infections, while the vaccination priority should be given to the elderly to minimize the number of deaths. But this principle may not always apply when the interaction of age structure and age-specific social contact pa

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9418661 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature