Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Untangling the changing impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions and vaccination on European COVID-19 trajectories

  • Yong Ge,
  • Wen-Bin Zhang,
  • Xilin Wu,
  • Corrine W. Ruktanonchai,
  • Haiyan Liu,
  • Jianghao Wang,
  • Yongze Song,
  • Mengxiao Liu,
  • Wei Yan,
  • Juan Yang,
  • Eimear Cleary,
  • Sarchil H. Qader,
  • Fatumah Atuhaire,
  • Nick W. Ruktanonchai,
  • Andrew J. Tatem,
  • Shengjie Lai

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30897-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and COVID-19 vaccination have been implemented concurrently, making their relative effects difficult to measure. Here, the authors show that effects of NPIs reduced as vaccine coverage increased, but that NPIs could still be important in the context of more transmissible variants.