Justification for allocating vaccines to populations with high contact rates

Stephen Kissler (skissler@hsph.harvard.edu), Rebecca Kahn

Simulation code is in code/sim_epi.R.

To do:

  • Fix infection probabilities (product, not sum)
  • Implement prioritized vaccination (currently just random)
  • Implement infection and transmission blocking
  • Implement correlation between contacts and risk (use RR defined from reference at the mean number of contacts)
  • Simulate many epidemics and summarize

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