dc.contributor.author | NUNNER, Hendrik | |
dc.contributor.author | VAN DE RIJT, Arnout | |
dc.contributor.author | BUSKENS, Vincent | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-02-04T14:55:54Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-02-04T14:55:54Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Scientific reports, 2022, Vol. 12, Art. 737, OnlineOnly | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 2045-2322 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/73955 | |
dc.description | Published: 14 January 2022 | en |
dc.description.abstract | 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. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en |
dc.relation.ispartof | Scientific reports | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | COVID-19 | |
dc.subject | Vaccine effectiveness | |
dc.subject | Vaccination | |
dc.subject | Ethical problems | |
dc.subject | Pandemics | |
dc.title | Prioritizing high-contact occupations raises effectiveness of vaccination campaigns | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41598-021-04428-9 | |
dc.identifier.volume | 12 | |
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dc.rights.license | Attribution 4.0 International | * |