Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines: Evidence from the First-Year Rollout of Vaccination Programs

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of new realities, sets of data, and opportunities for data-driven approaches, decisions, and conclusions. One particular area for which developments and data have been made available in record time is related to vaccines and their impacts on health condition...

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Main Author: Antonio, Nuno (author)
Other Authors: Rita, Paulo (author), Saraiva, Pedro (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/103518
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/103518
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Summary:The COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of new realities, sets of data, and opportunities for data-driven approaches, decisions, and conclusions. One particular area for which developments and data have been made available in record time is related to vaccines and their impacts on health conditions and saving lives. In this article, we use public domain information to study the prevalence of vaccines in different countries and how they can save lives. We conclude that there are different clusters of countries, for some of which solid statistical models were built, and show that vaccination rates provide significant contributions to saving lives in such countries, with impacts that can be computed by simulations based upon these models.