Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness
March 11, 2021
Epidemiological and Evolutionary Considerations of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Dosing Regimes
Category: Article Summary
Topic: Vaccines and Immunity
Keywords (Tags): vaccines
- An immuno-epidemiological model suggests that a one-dose vaccination strategy would likely decrease short-term SARS-CoV-2 infections. Long-term outcomes, as well as likelihood of viral evolution driven by partial immunity, are mainly driven by relative immune robustness of one versus two doses. [EDITORIAL NOTE: A pre-print related to this manuscript was summarized on February 4, 2020]
Saad-Roy et al. (Mar 9, 2021). Epidemiological and Evolutionary Considerations of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Dosing Regimes. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg8663