Number needed to vaccinate for COVID-19 booster doses: a valuable metric to inform vaccination strategies

• Shuo Feng,
• E. Lin,
• Benjamin J. Cowling

Affiliations

Shuo Feng

Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; Corresponding author. Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, CCVTM, Churchill Road, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LE, UK.

E. Lin

Department of Surgical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Uppsala University, Sweden

Benjamin J. Cowling

WHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China; Laboratory of Data Discovery for Health Limited, Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China