Modeled impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated reduction in adult vaccinations on herpes zoster in the United States

• Main Authors: Desmond Curran (Author), Elizabeth M. La (Author), Ahmed Salem (Author), David Singer (Author), Nicolas Lecrenier (Author), Sara Poston (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Due to COVID-19, vaccinations dropped in 2020 and 2021. We estimated the impact of reduced recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV) use on herpes zoster (HZ) cases, complications, and quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) losses among older adults. Various scenarios were compared with Markov models using data f...