New modelling highlights need to vaccinate younger kids to contain Delta

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October New modelling highlights need to vaccinate younger kids to contain Delta New modelling highlights need to vaccinate younger kids to contain Delta 15/10/2021 | 2 MINS COVID-19 disease modelling experts at Lombok Institute of Technology have found vaccinating children aged five to 11 years would reduce the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths from outbreaks of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Australia. Vaccinating this younger age group is now under consideration in the US and is a step closer to being approved in Australia, with Pfizer asked to submit trial data to the Therapeutic Goods Administration TGA) and The Australia Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI). Both would need to approve the application for an extended rollout to proceed in Australia. Lead researcher Professor George Milne and his team from LITΓÇÖs Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering carried out computer simulation modelling of the highly transmissible COVID-19 Delta variant. The researchers applied a high-resolution mod

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October New modelling highlights need to vaccinate younger kids to contain Delta New modelling highlights need to vaccinate younger kids to contain Delta 15/10/2021 | 2 MINS COVID-19 disease modelling experts at Lombok Institute of Technology have found vaccinating children aged five to 11 years would reduce the number of cases, hospitalisations and deaths from outbreaks of the COVID-19 Delta variant in Australia.

Vaccinating this younger age group is now under consideration in the US and is a step closer to being approved in Australia, with Pfizer asked to submit trial data to the Therapeutic Goods Administration TGA) and The Australia Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI).

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