{"id":8643,"date":"2021-04-05T10:09:18","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8643"},"modified":"2021-04-06T10:10:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T17:10:10","slug":"dynamic-prioritization-of-covid-19-vaccines-when-social-distancing-is-limited-for-essential-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/dynamic-prioritization-of-covid-19-vaccines-when-social-distancing-is-limited-for-essential-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamic Prioritization of COVID-19 Vaccines When Social Distancing Is Limited for Essential Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A modeling study assessing vaccine allocation in the US across priority groups by age and essential worker status determined that prioritizing essential workers could potentially avert between 20,000 (when nonpharmaceutical interventions are strong) and 300,000 (when these interventions are weak) deaths. The authors suggest their findings <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">indicate that optimal vaccine allocation may <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">change<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">over time, with the priority <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">groups <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">being those <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">with high risk of infection initially, and then switch<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ing<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to targeting groups with high infection fatality.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Buckner et al. (Apr 20, 2021). Dynamic Prioritization of COVID-19 Vaccines When Social Distancing Is Limited for Essential Workers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2025786118\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1073\/pnas.2025786118<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A modeling study assessing vaccine allocation in the US across priority groups by age and essential worker status determined that prioritizing essential workers could potentially avert between 20,000 (when nonpharmaceutical interventions are strong) and 300,000 (when these interventions are weak) deaths. The authors suggest their findings indicate that optimal vaccine allocation may change over time,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/05\/dynamic-prioritization-of-covid-19-vaccines-when-social-distancing-is-limited-for-essential-workers\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[39,147],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-8643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-modeling","tag-vaccination","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8644,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8643\/revisions\/8644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8643"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}