Extended Data Fig. 8: Health costs as a function of vaccination speed. | Nature Medicine

Extended Data Fig. 8: Health costs as a function of vaccination speed.

From: Modeling vaccination rollouts, SARS-CoV-2 variants and the requirement for non-pharmaceutical interventions in Italy

Extended Data Fig. 8

Health-cost vs. vaccination-speed curves: for a given \({\cal{R}}_0\) profile, the curve gives the total ICU occupancy (a) and the total hospital occupancy (b) in the period from April 2021 to January 2022, as a function of the average vaccination speed, measured as the fraction of two-dose vaccinated population at the end of the period. The health-cost vs. vaccination-speed curves corresponding to a constant reproduction number are reported in purple (\({\cal{R}}_0 = 1.27\)), orange (\({\cal{R}}_0 = 1.1\)) and blue (\({\cal{R}}_0 = 0.9\)), while those corresponding to intermittent strategies are reported in red (Open-Close) and green (Close-Open).

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