Year: 2021
Type: report
Abstract: SARS-CoV-2 infection has taken a disproportionate toll on Ontario older adults, and on residents of disadvantaged and racialized urban neighbourhoods throughout the province. Prioritizing and implementing vaccine distribution for Ontarians based on both age and neighbourhood of residence could ensure that those at the highest risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and hospitalization, ICU admission or death from COVID-19 will be among the first to receive vaccines. This vaccine strategy will maximize the prevention of deaths and long-term morbidity, and best maintain health care system capacity by reducing hospitalizations and ICU admissions due to COVID-19 as compared with a strategy that prioritizes vaccination based on age alone (Figure 1). The strategy would not interfere with the ongoing and future vaccination of any specific high-risk population, as it is intended to guide the mass distribution of vaccines to the general Ontario population.
Authors: Kevin A. Brown, Nathan M. Stall, Eugene Joh, Upton Allen, Isaac I. Bogoch, Sarah A. Buchan, Nick Daneman, Gerald A. Evans, David N. Fisman, Jennifer L. Gibson, Jessica Hopkins, Trevor Van Ingen, Antonina Maltsev, Allison McGeer, Sharmistha Mishra, Fahad Razak, Beate Sander, Brian Schwartz, Kevin Schwartz, Arjumand Siddiqi, Janet Smylie, Peter Juni
Language: English
Subfield: Modeling and Simulation
Field: Mathematics
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W3135545681