vaccination in order to achieve herd immunity and reduce the efects of the disease. Vaccination rates have difered between … countries, depending on supply (availability of resources) and demand (altruism and resistance to vaccination) factors. Methods … levels of vaccination between countries, using the number of transplants as a proxy for altruism. Taking European Union …

) to evaluate the effects of vaccinations and variants on the epidemic and macroeconomic outlook. Vaccination plays the …, increasing the volatility of epidemic curves and worsening the macroeconomic outlook. If a more contagious variant emerges after … vaccination becomes available, therefore, the mitigating factor of the latter is at least partially offset by the former. A new …