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Letters Covid-19: elimination debate

Covid-19 elimination: consider population level effects of vaccine

BMJ 2020; 371 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m3889 (Published 06 October 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;371:m3889
  1. Nick Payne, honorary professor of public health
  1. School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK
  1. n.payne{at}sheffield.ac.uk

I wish to echo Martin McKee’s view that there is undue pessimism regarding a covid-19 vaccination.1 Not only has encouraging vaccine development been remarkably fast, but its effect at a population level needs to be …

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