A country-specific model of COVID-19 vaccination coverage needed for herd immunity in adult only or population wide vaccination programme

A country-specific model of COVID-19 vaccination coverage needed for herd immunity in adult only or population wide vaccination programme

We present a country specific method to calculate the COVID-19 vaccination coverage needed for herd immunity by considering age structure, age group-specific contact patterns, relative infectivity and susceptibility of children to adults, vaccination effectiveness and seroprevalence prior to vaccina...

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Main Authors: Fang Ting Goh, Yi Zhen Chew, Clarence C. Tam, Chee Fu Yung, Hannah Clapham
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-06-01
Series:Epidemics
Subjects:
Herd immunity
Age structure
Next generation matrix
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436522000305

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