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Enhanced vaccine control of epidemics in adaptive networks [PDF]

, 2009
We study vaccine control for disease spread on an adaptive network modeling disease avoidance behavior. Control is implemented by adding Poisson distributed vaccination of susceptibles. We show that vaccine control is much more effective in adaptive networks than in static networks due to an interaction between the adaptive network rewiring and the ...
Ira B. Schwartz, Leah B. Shaw, M. J. Keeling, M. S. Bartlett, R. M. Anderson   +4 more
arxiv   +5 more sources

Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1 [PDF]

, 2021
Background: Measuring routine childhood vaccination is crucial to inform global vaccine policies and programme implementation, and to track progress towards targets set by the Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP) and Immunization Agenda 2030.
Vaccine Coverage Collaborators,
core   +1 more source

BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine in a Nationwide Mass Vaccination Setting

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
Background As mass vaccination campaigns against coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) commence worldwide, vaccine effectiveness needs to be assessed for a range of outcomes across diverse populations in a noncontrolled setting.
N. Dagan, Noam Barda, Eldad Kepten, O. Miron, Shay Perchik, M. Katz, M. Hernán, M. Lipsitch, B. Reis, R. Balicer   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Covid-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant

New England Journal of Medicine, 2022
Background A rapid increase in coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases due to the omicron (B.1.1.529) variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 in highly vaccinated populations has aroused concerns about the effectiveness of current ...
N. Andrews, J. Stowe, Freja C M Kirsebom, S. Toffa, T. Rickeard, E. Gallagher, C. Gower, M. Kall, N. Groves, A. O’Connell, D. Simons, P. Blomquist, A. Zaidi, S. Nash, Nurin Iwani Binti Abdul Aziz, S. Thelwall, G. Dabrera, R. Myers, G. Amirthalingam, S. Gharbia, J. Barrett, R. Elson, S. Ladhani, N. Ferguson, M. Zambon, C. Campbell, K. Brown, S. Hopkins, M. Chand, M. Ramsay, J. Lopez Bernal   +30 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effectiveness of influenza vaccination in patients with end-stage renal disease receiving hemodialysis: a population-based study. [PDF]

, 2013
BackgroundLittle is known on the effectiveness of influenza vaccine in ESRD patients. This study compared the incidence of hospitalization, morbidity, and mortality in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD) between cohorts ...
Chang, Chiz-Tzung, Huang, Chiu-Ching, Liang, Chih-Chia, Lin, Cheng-Li, Lin, Po-Chang, Liu, Yao-Lung, Morisky, Donald E, Sung, Fung-Chang, Wang, I-Kuan, Yen, Tzung-Hai   +9 more
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Safety and Efficacy of Single-Dose Ad26.COV2.S Vaccine against Covid-19

New England Journal of Medicine, 2021
Background The Ad26.COV2.S vaccine is a recombinant, replication-incompetent human adenovirus type 26 vector encoding full-length severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) spike protein in a prefusion-stabilized conformation.
J. Sadoff, G. Gray, A. Vandebosch, V. Cárdenas, Georgi Shukarev, B. Grinsztejn, P. Goepfert, C. Truyers, H. Fennema, B. Spiessens, K. Offergeld, Gert Scheper, K. Taylor, M. Robb, J. Treanor, D. Barouch, J. Stoddard, M. Ryser, M. Marovich, K. Neuzil, L. Corey, N. Cauwenberghs, T. Tanner, K. Hardt, Javier Ruiz-Guiñazú, Mathieu le Gars, H. Schuitemaker, J. van Hoof, F. Struyf, M. Douoguih   +29 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Worldwide: A Concise Systematic Review of Vaccine Acceptance Rates

Vaccines, 2021
Utility of vaccine campaigns to control coronavirus 2019 disease (COVID-19) is not merely dependent on vaccine efficacy and safety. Vaccine acceptance among the general public and healthcare workers appears to have a decisive role in the successful ...
Malik Sallam
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Subclass and avidity of circumsporozoite protein specific antibodies associate with protection status against malaria infection

npj Vaccines, 2021
RTS,S/AS01 is an advanced pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine candidate with demonstrated vaccine efficacy up to 86.7% in controlled human malaria infection (CHMI) studies; however, reproducible immune correlates of protection (CoP) are elusive. To identify
Kelly E. Seaton, Rachel L. Spreng, Milite Abraha, Matthew Reichartz, Michelle Rojas, Frederick Feely, Richard H. C. Huntwork, Sheetij Dutta, Sarah V. Mudrak, S. Munir Alam, Scott Gregory, Erik Jongert, Margherita Coccia, Fernando Ulloa-Montoya, Ulrike Wille-Reece, Georgia D. Tomaras, S. Moses Dennison   +16 more
doaj   +1 more source

Safety and Efficacy of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 Vaccine

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection and the resulting coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) have afflicted tens of millions of people in a worldwide pandemic.
F. Polack, Stephen J. Thomas, N. Kitchin, J. Absalon, A. Gurtman, S. Lockhart, John L. Perez, Gonzalo Pérez Marc, E. Moreira, C. Zerbini, R. Bailey, K. Swanson, Satrajit Roychoudhury, K. Koury, Ping Li, W. Kalina, David Cooper, R. Frenck, L. Hammitt, Ö. Türeci, H. Nell, A. Schaefer, S. Ünal, D. Tresnan, Susan H. Mather, P. Dormitzer, U. Şahin, K. Jansen, W. Gruber   +28 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Efficacy and Safety of the mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

New England Journal of Medicine, 2020
Background Vaccines are needed to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) and to protect persons who are at high risk for complications. The mRNA-1273 vaccine is a lipid nanoparticle–encapsulated mRNA-based vaccine that encodes the prefusion ...
L. Baden, Hana M. El Sahly, B. Essink, K. Kotloff, S. Frey, R. Novak, D. Diemert, S. Spector, N. Rouphael, C. Creech, J. Mcgettigan, Shishir Kehtan, N. Segall, Joel Solis, A. Brosz, C. Fierro, H. Schwartz, K. Neuzil, L. Corey, P. Gilbert, H. Janes, D. Follmann, M. Marovich, J. Mascola, L. Polakowski, J. Ledgerwood, B. Graham, H. Bennett, R. Pajon, C. Knightly, B. Leav, W. Deng, Honghong Zhou, Shu Han, M. Ivarsson, Jacqueline M. Miller, T. Zaks   +36 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source