Reposted by Zachary Susswein
🚨 Disease modelers: Do you use empirical VE estimates interchangeably to inform vaccine effect parameters?
Me too, and it’s distorting our predictions.
VE estimates often do not align with model parameters. We discuss these pitfalls & solutions in our new preprint:
arxiv.org/abs/2605.18571 🧵👇
arxiv.org
Incorporating vaccine effects into epidemiological models: common pitfalls and solutions
Incorporating vaccination into mathematical models appears deceptively simple: models integrate vaccine-derived protections, such as reduced susceptibility to infection, using parameters informed by e...
