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Benefits of integrated screening and vaccination for infection control

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dc.contributor.authorRabil, Marie Jeanneen
dc.contributor.authorTunc, Saiten
dc.contributor.authorBish, Douglas R.en
dc.contributor.authorBish, Ebru K.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-28T17:06:37Zen
dc.date.available2022-02-28T17:06:37Zen
dc.date.issued2021-12en
dc.date.updated2022-02-28T17:06:34Zen
dc.description.abstractImportance: Screening and vaccination are essential in the fight against infectious diseases, but need to be integrated and customized based on community and disease characteristics. Objective: To develop effective screening and vaccination strategies, customized for a college campus, to reduce COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, deaths, and peak hospitalizations. Design, Setting, and Participants: We construct a compartmental model of disease spread for vaccination and routine screening, and study the efficacy of four mitigation strategies (routine screening only, vaccination only, vaccination with partial routine screening, vaccination with full routine screening), and a no-intervention strategy. The study setting is a hypothetical college campus of 5,000 students and 455 faculty members, with 11 undetected, asymptotic SARS-CoV-2 infections at the start of an 80-day semester. For sensitivity analysis, we vary the screening frequency, daily vaccination rate, initial vaccination coverage, and screening and vaccination compliance; and consider three scenarios that represent low/medium/high transmission rates and test efficacy. Model parameters come from publicly available or published sources. Results: With low initial vaccination coverage, even aggressive vaccination and screening result in a high number of infections: 1,024/2,040 (1,532/1,773) with routine daily (every other day) screening of the unvaccinated; 275/895 with daily screening extended to the newly vaccinated in base- and worst-case scenarios, with reproduction numbers 4.75 and 6.75, respectively, representative of COVID-19 Delta variant. With the emergence of the Omicron variant, the reproduction number may increase and/or effective vaccine coverage may decrease if a booster shot is needed to maximize vaccine efficacy. Conclusion: Integrated vaccination and routine screening can allow for a safe opening of a college when initial vaccination coverage is sufficiently high. The interventions need to be customized considering the initial vaccination coverage, estimated compliance, screening and vaccination capacity, disease transmission and adverse outcome rates, and the number of infections/peak hospitalizations the college is willing to tolerate.en
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dc.identifier.orcidTunc, Sait [0000-0002-0194-7795]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/108940en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.18.21268047v1en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.titleBenefits of integrated screening and vaccination for infection controlen
dc.title.serialPLOS Oneen
dc.typeArticleen
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pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Techen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineeringen
pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineering/Industrial and Systems Engineeringen
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pubs.organisational-group/Virginia Tech/Engineering/COE T&R Facultyen

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