Communications Medicine (Aug 2022)

A game theoretic approach identifies conditions that foster vaccine-rich to vaccine-poor country donation of surplus vaccines

  • Adam Lampert,
  • Raanan Sulitzeanu-Kenan,
  • Pieter Vanhuysse,
  • Markus Tepe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00173-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Lampert et al. use a game theoretic approach to study conditions in which vaccine-rich countries might donate vaccines. They find that if the total amount of surplus vaccines is sufficiently large, coordination can lead to significant surplus donations even by strictly self-interested vaccine-rich countries.