{"id":9147,"date":"2021-04-14T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T17:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9147"},"modified":"2021-04-15T10:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T17:46:00","slug":"the-balancing-role-of-distribution-speed-against-varying-efficacy-levels-of-covid-19-vaccines-under-variants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/14\/the-balancing-role-of-distribution-speed-against-varying-efficacy-levels-of-covid-19-vaccines-under-variants\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balancing Role of Distribution Speed against Varying Efficacy Levels of COVID-19 Vaccines under Variants"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Vaccines with lower efficacy can reduce population-level transmission more than vaccines with higher efficacy if distribution of lower efficacy vaccines was comparatively faster based on findings from a modeling study. A vaccine with 65% and 60% efficacy before and after the variants, respectively, can outperform a vaccine with 95% and 90% efficacy, if its distribution were 46-48% faster. The authors state that these results have implications for vaccine distribution strategies in the face of an increasing proportion of infections with SARS-CoV-2 known and future variants against which current vaccines may have lower efficacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kim et al.\u00a0(Apr 13, 2021). The Balancing Role of Distribution Speed against Varying Efficacy Levels of COVID-19 Vaccines under Variants. Pre-print downloaded Apr 14 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.09.21255217\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.09.21255217<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] Vaccines with lower efficacy can reduce population-level transmission more than vaccines with higher efficacy if distribution of lower efficacy vaccines was comparatively faster based on findings from a modeling study. A vaccine with 65% and 60% efficacy before and after the variants, respectively, can outperform a vaccine with 95% and 90% efficacy,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/14\/the-balancing-role-of-distribution-speed-against-varying-efficacy-levels-of-covid-19-vaccines-under-variants\/\">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-9147","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\/9147","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=9147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9147\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9147"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}