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December 21, 2020

The Challenges of the Coming Mass Vaccination and Exit Strategy in Prevention and Control of COVID-19 a Modelling Study

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[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A modeling study of potential vaccination scenarios in China, Brazil, Indonesia, Russia, UK, and the US showed that there was a critical (minimum) vaccination coverage needed for each country to balance the discontinuation of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) while avoiding a subsequent wave of infections, depending on effectiveness of NPIs. The authors concluded that discontinuation of NPIs should be tailored to countries based on quarantine rates and testing ability, and vaccine accessibility, affordability, and efficiency.  

Tang et al. (Dec 20, 2020). The Challenges of the Coming Mass Vaccination and Exit Strategy in Prevention and Control of COVID-19 a Modelling Study. Pre-print downloaded Dec 21 from  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.18.20248478v1