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Optimal COVID-19 vaccination strategies prioritize groups with high contact rates to minimize deaths. Random vaccination reduces infections, while elderly prioritization lowers mortality, but targeting high-contact groups is most effective overall.

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  • Epidemiology
  • Mathematical Modeling
  • Public Health

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  • Achieving high population immunity through optimal vaccine distribution is crucial for controlling infectious diseases.
  • The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for sophisticated epidemiological models to guide vaccination strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and apply a novel distributed optimal control epidemiological model for COVID-19 vaccination.
  • To analyze various vaccination scenarios, including random and prioritized approaches, and compare them to an optimal policy.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a nonstandard epidemiological model incorporating infected sub-population heterogeneity based on time since infection.
  • Application of optimal control theory to determine vaccination strategies for the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Simulation and comparison of random vaccination, elderly prioritization, and an optimal policy.

Main Results:

  • Random vaccination effectively reduces the total number of infected individuals.
  • Prioritizing vaccination for the elderly demonstrates a reduction in overall mortality.
  • The optimal vaccination strategy identified involves the early prioritization of age groups with the highest contact rates to minimize total deaths.

Conclusions:

  • Heterogeneity in the infected population is a critical factor for accurate COVID-19 modeling.
  • Vaccination prioritization strategies significantly impact disease dynamics, mortality, and infection rates.
  • Targeting high-contact populations early offers the most effective approach to reducing COVID-19 mortality.