Earlier today, I had an argument with someone regarding the flaws of the risk-based vaccine distribution that many states are following. This paper is one of the ones I remembered regarding it,...
Earlier today, I had an argument with someone regarding the flaws of the risk-based vaccine distribution that many states are following. This paper is one of the ones I remembered regarding it, and figured it might be of interest to many here.
Figure 2 serves as a fairly digestible summary. The vaccine distribution is most widely following the brown line, the demographic, which is a wide-spread distribution (across whole state) with numbers weighed by at-risk populations. The grey line shows the improvement by also including infection rate in the weighing, and the yellow line demonstrates using localized focus as well, instead of using a wide geographic area.
In short, optimal vaccine distribution gives only to densely populated infection hotspots, weighed against population, population density, and infection rate.
Earlier today, I had an argument with someone regarding the flaws of the risk-based vaccine distribution that many states are following. This paper is one of the ones I remembered regarding it, and figured it might be of interest to many here.
Figure 2 serves as a fairly digestible summary. The vaccine distribution is most widely following the brown line, the demographic, which is a wide-spread distribution (across whole state) with numbers weighed by at-risk populations. The grey line shows the improvement by also including infection rate in the weighing, and the yellow line demonstrates using localized focus as well, instead of using a wide geographic area.
In short, optimal vaccine distribution gives only to densely populated infection hotspots, weighed against population, population density, and infection rate.