Date: 2022
Type: Article
Prioritizing high-contact occupations raises effectiveness of vaccination campaigns
Scientific reports, 2022, Vol. 12, Art. 737, OnlineOnly
NUNNER, Hendrik, VAN DE RIJT, Arnout, BUSKENS, Vincent, Prioritizing high-contact occupations raises effectiveness of vaccination campaigns, Scientific reports, 2022, Vol. 12, Art. 737, OnlineOnly
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A twenty-year-old idea from network science is that vaccination campaigns would be more effective if high-contact individuals were preferentially targeted. Implementation is impeded by the ethical and practical problem of differentiating vaccine access based on a personal characteristic that is hard-to-measure and private. Here, we propose the use of occupational category as a proxy for connectedness in a contact network. Using survey data on occupation-specific contact frequencies, we calibrate a model of disease propagation in populations undergoing varying vaccination campaigns. We find that vaccination campaigns that prioritize high-contact occupational groups achieve similar infection levels with half the number of vaccines, while also reducing and delaying peaks. The paper thus identifies a concrete, operational strategy for dramatically improving vaccination efficiency in ongoing pandemics.
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Published: 14 January 2022
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73955
Full-text via DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-04428-9
ISSN: 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
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