{"id":1505,"date":"2020-10-12T16:39:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T23:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2020-10-19T17:10:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T00:10:55","slug":"age-targeted-dose-allocation-can-halve-covid-19-vaccine-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/age-targeted-dose-allocation-can-halve-covid-19-vaccine-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-Targeted Dose Allocation Can Halve COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0An age-structured mathematical model investigating age-specific allocation strategies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines indicated that across 179 countries, the highest priority individuals for vaccination were typically those 30-59 years of age, based on their higher risk of infection and disease, and greater rates of contact. The model assumed that the vaccine would be 70% effective, and that there was age-dependent susceptibility and disease severity. The authors estimate that optimizing how the COVID-19 vaccine is allocated can more than double its impact in reducing SARS-CoV-2 transmission for a fixed number of doses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meehan et al. (Oct 11, 2020). Age-Targeted Dose Allocation Can Halve COVID-19 Vaccine Requirements. Pre-print downloaded Oct 12 <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.08.20208108\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.10.08.20208108<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer reviewed]\u00a0An age-structured mathematical model investigating age-specific allocation strategies for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines indicated that across 179 countries, the highest priority individuals for vaccination were typically those 30-59 years of age, based on their higher risk of infection and disease, and greater rates of contact. The model assumed that the vaccine would be 70%&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/10\/12\/age-targeted-dose-allocation-can-halve-covid-19-vaccine-requirements\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25,47,75,76,33],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-candidate","tag-modeling-prediction","tag-report","tag-summarize","tag-vaccines","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1506,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}