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dc.contributor.authorSpassiani, Ilaria
dc.contributor.authorGubian, Lorenzo
dc.contributor.authorPalu, Giorgio
dc.contributor.authorSebastiani, Giovanni
dc.date.accessioned2021-03-10T09:46:10Z
dc.date.available2021-03-10T09:46:10Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-15
dc.description.abstractSARS-CoV-2 is highly contagious, rapidly turned into a pandemic, and is causing a relevant number of critical to severe life-threatening COVID-19 patients. However, robust statistical studies of a large cohort of patients, potentially useful to implement a vaccination campaign, are rare. We analyzed public data of about 19,000 patients for the period 28 February to 15 May 2020 by several mathematical methods. Precisely, we describe the COVID-19 evolution of a number of variables that include age, gender, patient’s care location, and comorbidities. It prompts consideration of special preventive and therapeutic measures for subjects more prone to developing life-threatening conditions while affording quantitative parameters for predicting the effects of an outburst of the pandemic on public health structures and facilities adopted in response. We propose a mathematical way to use these results as a powerful tool to face the pandemic and implement a mass vaccination campaign. This is done by means of priority criteria based on the influence of the considered variables on the probability of both death and infection.en_US
dc.identifier.citationSpassiani, Gubian, Palu, Sebastiani S. Vaccination criteria based on factors influencing COVID-19 diffusion and mortality. Vaccines. 2020;8(4):1-11en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 1865967
dc.identifier.doi10.3390/vaccines8040766
dc.identifier.issn2076-393X
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/20664
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMDPIen_US
dc.relation.journalVaccines
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2020 The Author(s)en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Mathematics and natural science: 400en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medical disciplines: 700::Health sciences: 800::Community medicine, Social medicine: 801en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Medisinske Fag: 700::Helsefag: 800::Samfunnsmedisin, sosialmedisin: 801en_US
dc.titleVaccination criteria based on factors influencing COVID-19 diffusion and mortalityen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
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dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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