The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is a major concern all over the world and, as vaccines became
available at the end of 2020, optimal vaccination strategies were subjected to intense …

Public health authorities face the issue of optimal vaccine distribution during spread of
pandemics. In this paper, we study the optimal way to distribute a finite stock of COVID-19 …

Abstract The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID)-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented
pressures on societies around the world. Successful vaccines, developed against the spike …

We analyze the effectiveness of the first six months of vaccination campaign against SARS-
CoV-2 in Italy by using a computational epidemic model which takes into account …

For the control of COVID-19, vaccination programmes provide a long-term solution. The
amount of available vaccines is often limited, and thus it is crucial to determine the allocation …

Present hopes to conquer the Covid-19 epidemic are largely based on the expectation of a
rapid availability of vaccines. However, once vaccine production starts, it will probably take …

The COVID-19 outbreak has highlighted our vulnerability to novel infections. Faced with this
threat and no effective treatment, in line with many other countries, the UK adopted enforced …

Background The unprecedented rapid development of vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2
virus creates in itself a new challenge for governments and health authorities: the effective …

In this paper we study different vaccination strategies that could have been implemented for
the early COVID-19 pandemic. We use a demographic epidemiological mathematical model …

Vaccination against the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) started in early December of
2020 in the USA. The efficacy of the vaccines vary depending on the SARS-CoV-2 variant …