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TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of vaccinations, boosters and lockdowns on COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia
AU - Chapman, Lloyd A. C.
AU - Aubry, Maite
AU - Maset, Noémie
AU - Russell, Timothy W.
AU - Knock, Edward S.
AU - Lees, John A.
AU - Mallet, Henri-Pierre
AU - Cao-Lormeau, Van-Mai
AU - Kucharski, Adam J.
PY - 2023/11/13
Y1 - 2023/11/13
N2 - Estimating the impact of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 incidence is complicated by several factors, including successive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and changing population immunity from vaccination and infection. We develop an age-structured multi-strain COVID-19 transmission model and inference framework to estimate vaccination and non-pharmaceutical intervention impact accounting for these factors. We apply this framework to COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia and estimate that the vaccination programme averted 34.8% (95% credible interval: 34.5–35.2%) of 223,000 symptomatic cases, 49.6% (48.7–50.5%) of 5830 hospitalisations and 64.2% (63.1–65.3%) of 1540 hospital deaths that would have occurred in a scenario without vaccination up to May 2022. We estimate the booster campaign contributed 4.5%, 1.9%, and 0.4% to overall reductions in cases, hospitalisations, and deaths. Our results suggest that removing lockdowns during the first two waves would have had non-linear effects on incidence by altering accumulation of population immunity. Our estimates of vaccination and booster impact differ from those for other countries due to differences in age structure, previous exposure levels and timing of variant introduction relative to vaccination, emphasising the importance of detailed analysis that accounts for these factors.
AB - Estimating the impact of vaccination and non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 incidence is complicated by several factors, including successive emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and changing population immunity from vaccination and infection. We develop an age-structured multi-strain COVID-19 transmission model and inference framework to estimate vaccination and non-pharmaceutical intervention impact accounting for these factors. We apply this framework to COVID-19 waves in French Polynesia and estimate that the vaccination programme averted 34.8% (95% credible interval: 34.5–35.2%) of 223,000 symptomatic cases, 49.6% (48.7–50.5%) of 5830 hospitalisations and 64.2% (63.1–65.3%) of 1540 hospital deaths that would have occurred in a scenario without vaccination up to May 2022. We estimate the booster campaign contributed 4.5%, 1.9%, and 0.4% to overall reductions in cases, hospitalisations, and deaths. Our results suggest that removing lockdowns during the first two waves would have had non-linear effects on incidence by altering accumulation of population immunity. Our estimates of vaccination and booster impact differ from those for other countries due to differences in age structure, previous exposure levels and timing of variant introduction relative to vaccination, emphasising the importance of detailed analysis that accounts for these factors.
U2 - 10.1038/s41467-023-43002-x
DO - 10.1038/s41467-023-43002-x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
IS - 1
M1 - 7330
ER -