Medical Xpress August 8, 2024
When COVID-19 booster vaccines are in short supply, prioritizing the elderly over other age groups for booster vaccination results in the lowest loss of life, reports Robin Thompson at the University of Oxford and colleagues, in a study published August 8 in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology.
Despite widespread vaccination against the virus that causes COVID-19, declining immunity and the emergence of new variants has resulted in continuing waves of infection and disease worldwide. Due to the cost of producing and administering booster vaccines, and insufficient supplies, policymakers must decide whether older individuals should be targeted to receive the boosters or whether other strategies are more effective at preventing premature deaths.
In the new study, researchers used mathematical modeling...
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