Communications Medicine (Nov 2022)

The importance of sustained compliance with physical distancing during COVID-19 vaccination rollout

  • Alexandra Teslya,
  • Ganna Rozhnova,
  • Thi Mui Pham,
  • Daphne A. van Wees,
  • Hendrik Nunner,
  • Noortje G. Godijk,
  • Martin Bootsma,
  • Mirjam E. Kretzschmar

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00207-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Teslya et al. examine the importance of sustained compliance with physical distancing during COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Using mathematical models, the authors find that waning compliance may contribute to increased hospitalisations in initial phases of the rollout and that behavioural interventions would likely help to control transmission.