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dramatically accelerate vaccination. Available evidence on efficacy is not dispositive but suggests half- or even quarter-doses of …
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Vaccination rates have a statistically significant downward effect on the Covid-19 death rate across US counties, as of … Biden-Trump vote in the 2020 election as an instrument for vaccination rates raises the magnitude of the estimate …
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Recent observations on countries like the UK that have accumulated a large fraction of inoculated individuals suggest that, although initially, vaccines have little effect on new infections they strongly reduce the share of mortality out of a given pool of infections. This paper examines the...
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Vaccination is a critical tool, along with suppression and treatment, for controlling epidemics such as SARS-CoV-2. To … maximize the impact of vaccination, doses should be allocated to the highest value targets, accounting for health and potential … vaccination using novel, local seroprevalence data from India. Second, we estimate the value of statistical life-years using …
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effective in 2016. Employing a unique dataset of county-level vaccination and exemption rates at Kindergarten entry, we exploit … coverage for school-mandated vaccines. Relative to a diverse group of control states, our findings indicate that vaccination … exemptions in California was only partially effective in improving vaccination coverage, and may have led parents to substitute …
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An annual flu shot is one of the least controversial and most widely-recommended preventative health measures. In spite of such advice, only a fraction of those who are suggested to get a flu shot actually receive it. We focus on past personal outcomes to understand how individual learning in...
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vaccination with a perfectly effective vaccine becomes a viable firm strategy: the marginal consumer is still willing to pay since … those infected before vaccine rollout remain a source of transmission. We derive a simple condition under which vaccination …
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Vaccination against infectious disease may be beneficial to reduce illness in vaccinated persons and disease … who seeks to optimize welfare provides a constructive framework to evaluate vaccination policy. This paper characterizes … choice of vaccination policy as a planning problem that aims to minimize the social cost of illness and vaccination. Manski …
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The decades-long effort to produce a workable HIV vaccine has hardly been a waste of public and private resources. To the contrary, the scientific know-how acquired along the way has served as the critical foundation for the development of vaccines against the novel, pandemic SARS-CoV-2 virus....
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vaccination relative to birth, we estimate the effects of local pertussis outbreaks occurring in-utero and during the first two …' vaccination decisions …
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