Postdoctoral researcher Agnieszka Truszkowska, with Profs. Maurizio Porfiri, Zhong-Ping Jiang, Alessandro Rizzo, and collaborators Prof. Sachit Butail of Northern Illinois University, Prof. Emanuele Caroppo of Azienda Sanitaria Locale Roma 2, and Lorenzo Zino of the University of Groningen, have been continuing their research on the effects of COVID-19 vaccinations on the population of the United States.
This time the team focuses on predicting the effectiveness of vaccine booster shots by modifying their high-resolution agent-based model and running simulations on a sample middle-size town replicating New Rochelle, NY. They took into account a variety of factors, including the booster shot administration rate, the spread of the Delta variant, the implemented testing policies, the availability of three vaccines offering different levels of protection over time, and the population’s resistance towards vaccination.
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Image credit: Anna Sawulska and Maurizio Porfiri.