The Impact of Vaccination on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outbreaks in the United States

© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press for the Infectious Diseases Society of America..

BACKGROUND: Global vaccine development efforts have been accelerated in response to the devastating coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We evaluated the impact of a 2-dose COVID-19 vaccination campaign on reducing incidence, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States.

METHODS: We developed an agent-based model of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) transmission and parameterized it with US demographics and age-specific COVID-19 outcomes. Healthcare workers and high-risk individuals were prioritized for vaccination, whereas children under 18 years of age were not vaccinated. We considered a vaccine efficacy of 95% against disease following 2 doses administered 21 days apart achieving 40% vaccine coverage of the overall population within 284 days. We varied vaccine efficacy against infection and specified 10% preexisting population immunity for the base-case scenario. The model was calibrated to an effective reproduction number of 1.2, accounting for current nonpharmaceutical interventions in the United States.

RESULTS: Vaccination reduced the overall attack rate to 4.6% (95% credible interval [CrI]: 4.3%-5.0%) from 9.0% (95% CrI: 8.4%-9.4%) without vaccination, over 300 days. The highest relative reduction (54%-62%) was observed among individuals aged 65 and older. Vaccination markedly reduced adverse outcomes, with non-intensive care unit (ICU) hospitalizations, ICU hospitalizations, and deaths decreasing by 63.5% (95% CrI: 60.3%-66.7%), 65.6% (95% CrI: 62.2%-68.6%), and 69.3% (95% CrI: 65.5%-73.1%), respectively, across the same period.

CONCLUSIONS: Our results indicate that vaccination can have a substantial impact on mitigating COVID-19 outbreaks, even with limited protection against infection. However, continued compliance with nonpharmaceutical interventions is essential to achieve this impact.

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UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2021 Jan 02;:. - PMID 33269359

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:73

Enthalten in:

Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America - 73(2021), 12 vom: 16. Dez., Seite 2257-2264

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Moghadas, Seyed M [VerfasserIn]
Vilches, Thomas N [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Kevin [VerfasserIn]
Wells, Chad R [VerfasserIn]
Shoukat, Affan [VerfasserIn]
Singer, Burton H [VerfasserIn]
Meyers, Lauren Ancel [VerfasserIn]
Neuzil, Kathleen M [VerfasserIn]
Langley, Joanne M [VerfasserIn]
Fitzpatrick, Meagan C [VerfasserIn]
Galvani, Alison P [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID-19
COVID-19 Vaccines
Journal Article
Outbreak simulation
Pandemic
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
United States
Vaccines

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Date Completed 22.12.2021

Date Revised 08.11.2023

published: Print

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2021 Jan 02;:. - PMID 33269359

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1093/cid/ciab079

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NLM320766780