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Covax allocation of covid vaccines
Equity and evidence during vaccine rollout: stepped wedge cluster randomised trials could help
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n435 (Published 12 February 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n435
- Katy J L Bell, associate professor of clinical epidemiology1,
- Paul Glasziou, director2,
- Fiona Stanaway, senior lecturer in clinical epidemiology1,
- Patrick Bossuyt, professor of clinical epidemiology3,
- Les Irwig, emeritus professor of epidemiology1
- 1Edward Ford Building (A27), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
- 2Institute for Evidence-Based Healthcare, Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, Bond University, Robina, QLD 4226, Australia
- 3Department of Epidemiology and Data Science, Amsterdam Public Health, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- katy.bell{at}sydney.edu.au
Herzog and colleagues raise the thorny issue of allocating scarce vaccines, comparing the proportional allocation model with a fair priority model.1 Regardless of what is used for prioritisation between and within countries, there will be a long period of rollout before most of the world’s population are offered vaccination. For groups of equivalent priority, a fair and equitable way to decide on the order of rollout is to use a lottery, or system of random choice.2 Such randomised …
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