{"id":8991,"date":"2020-08-11T11:09:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=8991"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:10:25","slug":"vaccine-efficacy-needed-for-a-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-to-prevent-or-stop-an-epidemic-as-the-sole-intervention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/vaccine-efficacy-needed-for-a-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-to-prevent-or-stop-an-epidemic-as-the-sole-intervention\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Efficacy Needed for a COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent or Stop an Epidemic as the Sole Intervention"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Results\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of simulation<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">experiments from\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a computational model\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">developed by Bartsch et al.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">indicate\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">that\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">a\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">SARS-CoV-2\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">vaccine\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">would need to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">have an efficacy of at least 70<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">% to prevent an epidemic and at least 80% to\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">extinguish an epidemic without any other measures (e.g., social distancing)<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in the US.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">A vaccine with an efficacy between 60% and 80% could\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">reduce or eliminate<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0the need for other measures under certain circumstances<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0such as\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">such as a vaccination coverage of nearly 100%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Bartsch et al. (July\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">15,\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">2020). Vaccine Efficacy Needed for a COVID-19 Coronavirus Vaccine to Prevent or Stop an Epidemic as the Sole Intervention. American Journal of Preventive Medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2020.06.011\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.amepre.2020.06.011<\/span><\/a><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;335559685&quot;:720}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Results\u00a0of simulation\u00a0experiments from\u00a0a computational model\u00a0developed by Bartsch et al.\u00a0indicate\u00a0that\u00a0a\u00a0SARS-CoV-2\u00a0vaccine\u00a0would need to\u00a0have an efficacy of at least 70% to prevent an epidemic and at least 80% to\u00a0extinguish an epidemic without any other measures (e.g., social distancing)\u00a0in the US.\u00a0A vaccine with an efficacy between 60% and 80% could\u00a0reduce or eliminate\u00a0the need for other measures under certain circumstances,\u00a0such&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/11\/vaccine-efficacy-needed-for-a-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-to-prevent-or-stop-an-epidemic-as-the-sole-intervention\/\">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":[],"topic":[23],"class_list":["post-8991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-modeling-and-prediction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991","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=8991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8992,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8991\/revisions\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8991"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=8991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}