Model-based analysis on social acceptability and feasibility of a focused protection strategy against the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abstract:

:This paper studies the social acceptability and feasibility of a focused protection strategy against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We propose a control scheme to develop herd immunity while satisfying the following two basic requirements for a viable policy option. The first requirement is social acceptability: the overall deaths should be minimized for social acceptance. The second is feasibility: the healthcare system should not be overwhelmed to avoid various adverse effects. To exploit the fact that the disease severity increases considerably with age and comorbidities, we assume that some focused protection measures for those high-risk individuals are implemented and the disease does not spread within the high-risk population. Because the protected population has higher severity ratios than the unprotected population by definition, the protective measure can substantially reduce mortality in the whole population and also avoid the collapse of the healthcare system. Based on a simple susceptible-infected-recovered model, social acceptability and feasibility of the proposed strategy are summarized into two easily computable conditions. The proposed framework can be applied to various populations for studying the viability of herd immunity strategies against COVID-19. For Japan, herd immunity may be developed by the proposed scheme if [Formula: see text] and the severity rates of the disease are 1/10 times smaller than the previously reported value, although as high mortality as seasonal influenza is expected.

journal_name

Sci Rep

journal_title

Scientific reports

authors

Akamatsu T,Nagae T,Osawa M,Satsukawa K,Sakai T,Mizutani D

doi

10.1038/s41598-021-81630-9

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2021-01-21 00:00:00

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2003

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1

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2045-2322

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10.1038/s41598-021-81630-9

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11

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