Prioritizing the First Doses of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine to Save the Elderly: The Case Study of Italy

• Main Authors: Giuseppe Pontrelli (Author), Giulio Cimini (Author), Marco Roversi (Author), Andrea Gabrielli (Author), Gaetano Salina (Author), Stefania Bernardi (Author), Francesca Rocchi (Author), Alessandra Simonetti (Author), Carlo Giaquinto (Author), Paolo Rossi (Author), Francesco Sylos Labini (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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SARS-CoV-2 is currently causing hundreds of deaths every day in European countries, mostly in not yet vaccinated elderly. Vaccine shortage poses relevant challenges to health authorities, called to act promptly with a scarcity of data. We modeled the mortality reduction of the elderly according to a...