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  • Epidemiology
  • Network Theory
  • Mathematical Modeling

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  • COVID-19 severity and mortality increase with age.
  • Age-stratified modeling is crucial for reducing COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths.
  • Complex contact networks influence disease spread.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop an age-stratified epidemic model for COVID-19 dynamics.
  • To propose an effective age-stratified vaccination strategy.
  • To analyze the impact of vaccination prioritization on mortality and hospitalizations.

Main Methods:

  • Developed an age-stratified SEAHIR (susceptible-exposed-asymptomatic-hospitalized-infectious-removed) model.
  • Extended the standard SEIR compartmental model.
  • Utilized network theory to model COVID-19 spread in complex networks with general degree distributions.

Main Results:

  • Derived key epidemiological metrics from the SEAHIR model.
  • Determined that vaccination prioritization strategy effectiveness is contingent on the reproduction number (R0).
  • Identified that elderly prioritization is optimal only when R0 is high.

Conclusions:

  • When R0 is low due to interventions like masking, prioritizing high-transmission groups (adults 20-39) is most effective.
  • Age-based vaccination strategies significantly impact COVID-19 outcomes.
  • Findings offer recommendations for optimizing age-based COVID-19 vaccination prioritization.