Getting vaccines into at least 40% of the population can prevent more than 9-million Covid-19 infections and more than 73,000 deaths in SA, say US modellers.
Fewer hospitalisations mean the cost of the vaccine rollout will be lower than the bill for treating more unvaccinated people in hospital, according toLead author Krishna Reddy and his team said they used
They found that “vaccination programme implementation factors, including prompt procurement, distribution and rollout, are likely more influential than characteristics of the vaccine itself in maximising public health benefits and economic efficiency”.
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