US vaccine rollout was close to optimal at reducing deaths and infections, according to a model comparing 17.5 million alternative approaches

• Published in: The Conversation : COVID-19
• Main Authors: McCombs, Audrey L, Kadelka, Claus
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: Boston The Conversation US, Inc 17.11.2021
• Subjects: Coronaviruses; COVID-19 vaccines; Disease control; Infections; Iowa; United States > US

The big idea The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s plan for who gets vaccines and in what order saved nearly as many lives and prevented nearly as many infections as a theoretically perfect rollout, according to a new mathematical model we developed to assess the rollout of COVID–19 inocu...