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Vaccination is Australia's most important COVID-19 public health action, even though herd immunity is unlikely

2021-07-19

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The Australian National Cabinet four-step plan to transition to post-pandemic re-opening begins with vaccination to achieve herd protection and protection of the health system against a surge in COVID-19 cases. Assuming a pre-vaccination reproduction number for the Delta variant of 5, we show that for the current Mixed program of vaccinating over 60s with AstraZeneca and 16-60s with Pfizer we would not achieve her...

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Literature Corpus work: 2a29b083-b034-5d7e-84e0-e6eb47249378
DOI: 10.1101/2021.07.16.21260642

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