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Vaccine. 2010 May 15. [Epub ahead of print]
A computer simulation of vaccine prioritization, allocation, and rationing during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Lee BY, Brown ST, Korch G, Cooley PC, Zimmerman RK, Wheaton WD, Zimmer SM, Grefenstette JJ, Bailey RR, Assi TM, Burke DS.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract
In the fall 2009, the University of Pittsburgh Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) team employed an agent-based computer simulation model (ABM) of the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan region to assist the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Public Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services, to address several key questions regarding vaccine allocation during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, including comparing a vaccinating children (i.e., highest transmitters)-first policy versus the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-recommended vaccinating at-risk individuals-first policy. Our study supported adherence to the ACIP (instead of a children-first policy) prioritization recommendations for the H1N1 influenza vaccine when vaccine is in limited supply and that within the ACIP groups, children should receive highest priority. Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID: 20483192 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
A computer simulation of vaccine prioritization, allocation, and rationing during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Lee BY, Brown ST, Korch G, Cooley PC, Zimmerman RK, Wheaton WD, Zimmer SM, Grefenstette JJ, Bailey RR, Assi TM, Burke DS.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Abstract
In the fall 2009, the University of Pittsburgh Models of Infectious Disease Agent Study (MIDAS) team employed an agent-based computer simulation model (ABM) of the greater Washington, DC, metropolitan region to assist the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Public Preparedness and Response, Department of Health and Human Services, to address several key questions regarding vaccine allocation during the 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic, including comparing a vaccinating children (i.e., highest transmitters)-first policy versus the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)-recommended vaccinating at-risk individuals-first policy. Our study supported adherence to the ACIP (instead of a children-first policy) prioritization recommendations for the H1N1 influenza vaccine when vaccine is in limited supply and that within the ACIP groups, children should receive highest priority. Copyright ? 2010. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
PMID: 20483192 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
