{"id":9095,"date":"2020-08-17T11:55:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9095"},"modified":"2021-04-13T11:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T18:56:31","slug":"vaccine-optimization-for-covid-19-who-to-vaccinate-first-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/vaccine-optimization-for-covid-19-who-to-vaccinate-first-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine Optimization for COVID-19 Who to Vaccinate First"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"34\" data-aria-posinset=\"2019\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">[<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Preprint<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Matrajt<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0et al. us<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ed<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0an age-stratified model to<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">determine optimal vaccine allocation\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">for a population with an age distribution based on<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0Washington State<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">.<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Results suggest that 70% vaccine effectiveness (VE) would be enough to substantially mitigate the ongoing pandemic if\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">at least\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">50%\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">of the<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0population is optimally vaccinated. For a low vaccination coverage among the population (&lt;20%), the optimal allocation to minimize death is to vaccinate the high-risk (older) age-groups first, but\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the optimal allocation changes<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0in a scenario with higher coverage\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">(<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">&gt;40-60%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">to prioritize<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0vaccine to the high-transmission groups (those aged 20-50 and children) first.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Matrajt<\/span><\/i><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0et al. (Aug 16, 2020). Vaccine Optimization for COVID-19 Who to Vaccinate First. Pre-print downloaded Aug 17 from\u00a0<\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.14.20175257\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2020.08.14.20175257<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Preprint, not peer-reviewed]\u00a0Matrajt\u00a0et al. used\u00a0an age-stratified model to\u00a0determine optimal vaccine allocation\u00a0for a population with an age distribution based on\u00a0Washington State.\u00a0Results suggest that 70% vaccine effectiveness (VE) would be enough to substantially mitigate the ongoing pandemic if\u00a0at least\u00a050%\u00a0of the\u00a0population is optimally vaccinated. For a low vaccination coverage among the population (&lt;20%), the optimal allocation to minimize&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/08\/17\/vaccine-optimization-for-covid-19-who-to-vaccinate-first-2\/\">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-9095","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\/9095","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=9095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9096,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9095\/revisions\/9096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9095"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}