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Influenza Vaccination Strategies when supply is limited. Romarie “Romie” Morales Rosado. Questions. What is the impact of having access only to a limited number of dosages? What is the impact of delays in accessing the available vaccine supply?
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Influenza Vaccination Strategies when supply is limited Romarie “Romie” Morales Rosado
Questions • What is the impact of having access only to a limited number of dosages? • What is the impact of delays in accessing the available vaccine supply? • What is the role of a large percentage of H1N1 asymptomatic infectious individuals?
Type A and its subtypes • Subdivided (H1-H16) , (N1-N9)
Influenza virus and transmission • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvEOjwUOzJc
Impact Pandemic Influenza WHO declared a pandemic in June 2009, a total of 74 countries and territories had reported laboratory confirmed infections. To date, most countries in the world have confirmed infections from the new virus. Source:http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H1N1_map_by_confirmed_cases.svg
Confirmed Deaths and Infections Source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H1N1_map.svg
Pandemic 2009 vs. Pandemic 1918-19Some similarities… • Virus began to appear in the spring. • Came out of nowhere…! • Primarily attack young adults • Elderly were partially immune to 2009 disease Source:http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/swine-flu-pandemic-reincarnates-.html?rss=1, http://ent.about.com/od/entdisordersgi/a/H1N1pandemic.htm
Importance of Vaccination? • Problem: Not enough vaccines for everyone • Time constraint from identifying virus to creating and approving vaccine • Rich-Poor country Division
Transmission Model P V F S E I J D R Source: G. Chowell et al Addative vaccination strategies
Parameters Source: G. Chowell et al Transmission dynamics of the great influenza pandemic of 1918 in Geneva, Switzerland R. Gani, H. Hughes, D. Fleming, T. Grifin, J. Medlock, S. Leach. Potential impact of antiviral use during influenza pandemic. Emerg Infect Dis; 11( 2005); 1355–362. I.M.LonginiJr.,M.E.Halloran,A.NizamandY.Yang.Containingpandemicinfluenzawithantiviralagents. American Journal of Epidemiology; 159(2004); 623–633. C.E. Mills, J.M. Robins and M. Lipsitch. Transmissibility of 1918 pandemic influenza. Nature 432 (2004):904–906.
Cases of Optimal Vaccine Strategies • Limited Vaccine Access • Almost unlimited Vaccine Access • Time Delay
Optimal Control Problem L1 Set of functions –integral of function has finite solution we want u to belong to this set
Sensitivity Analysis • Weight Constant • Control Upper Bound (maximum vaccination rate) • Efficacy of Vaccine
Recap on Results • Best to apply vaccines at the beginning of the transmission • When transmission is weak a low vaccination policy is effective.
Results • Maximum Vaccination rate should be applied in a timely manner!!! • No significant difference between unconstrained and constrained cases when R0 is low (1.3) • Increase in vaccine efficacy and upper bound of control results in a decrease in the amount of vaccines that must be administered • Delay has impact on vaccine efficacy.
Future Work • Include asymptomatic class and understand the impact of these individuals on disease transmission .