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Vaccine allocation in a declining epidemic.

E Goldstein¹, J Wallinga, M Lipsitch

¹Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. egoldste@hsph.harvard.edu

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|July 10, 2012

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Prioritizing the 2009 pandemic influenza A/H1N1 (H1N1pdm) vaccine for high-risk adults over school children is advisable when the epidemic declines. This strategy balances mortality risk reduction with community transmission control.

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