COVID vaccine prioritization in low- and middle-income countries may justifiably depart from high-income countries’ age priorities

Gosseries, Axel;et.al.
(2022) Clinical Infectious Diseases — Vol. 74, n° 12, p. 10 (2022)

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In high-income countries that were first to roll out COVID-19 vaccines, older adults have thus far usually been prioritized for these vaccines over younger adults. Age-based priority primarily resulted from interpreting evidence available at the time, which indicated that vaccinating the elderly first would minimize COVID deaths and hospitalizations. WHO counsels a similar approach for all countries. This paper argues that some low- and middle-income countries that are short of COVID vaccine doses might be justified in revising this approach and instead prioritizing certain younger persons when allocating current vaccines or future variant-specific vaccines.
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Gosseries, A., & et al. (2022). COVID vaccine prioritization in low- and middle-income countries may justifiably depart from high-income countries’ age priorities. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 74(12), 10. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciac398 (Original work published 2022)