Article ; Online: Optimality of Maximal-Effort Vaccination.
Bulletin of mathematical biology
2023 Volume 85, Issue 8, Page(s) 73
Abstract: It is widely acknowledged that vaccinating at maximal effort in the face of an ongoing epidemic is the best strategy to minimise infections and deaths from the disease. Despite this, no one has proved that this is guaranteed to be true if the disease ... ...
Abstract | It is widely acknowledged that vaccinating at maximal effort in the face of an ongoing epidemic is the best strategy to minimise infections and deaths from the disease. Despite this, no one has proved that this is guaranteed to be true if the disease follows multi-group SIR (Susceptible-Infected-Recovered) dynamics. This paper provides a novel proof of this principle for the existing SIR framework, showing that the total number of deaths or infections from an epidemic is decreasing in vaccination effort. Furthermore, it presents a novel model for vaccination which assumes that vaccines assigned to a subgroup are distributed randomly to the unvaccinated population of that subgroup. It suggests, using COVID-19 data, that this more accurately captures vaccination dynamics than the model commonly found in the literature. However, as the novel model provides a strictly larger set of possible vaccination policies, the results presented in this paper hold for both models. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Models, Biological ; Mathematical Concepts ; COVID-19/epidemiology ; COVID-19/prevention & control ; Epidemics/prevention & control ; Vaccination/methods |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-06-23 |
Publishing country | United States |
Document type | Journal Article ; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
ZDB-ID | 184905-0 |
ISSN | 1522-9602 ; 0007-4985 ; 0092-8240 |
ISSN (online) | 1522-9602 |
ISSN | 0007-4985 ; 0092-8240 |
DOI | 10.1007/s11538-023-01179-8 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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