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Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines.

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Moody, JW; Keister, LA; Pasquale, DK
Published in: Socius
2021

Recent controversies about wearing masks and getting vaccinated to slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 highlight the potential for individual rights and decision making to create widespread community-level outcomes. There is little work demonstrating the collective spillover effects of pandemic mitigation efforts. The authors contribute by visualizing the proportion of unvaccinated people who would become infected at different combinations of mask wearing and vaccination in a hypothetical community. A common pattern emerges across all assumptions: below some joint threshold of mask and vaccination rates, almost all unvaccinated people will eventually become infected, and beyond that threshold there is a steep drop leading to widespread community-level protection. What differs across settings is the timing and shape of the drop-off after crossing the threshold. The authors conclude that masking and vaccination are sensible and in the best interest of the population.

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Socius

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2378-0231

Publication Date

2021

Volume

7

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 4410 Sociology
 

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Moody, J. W., Keister, L. A., & Pasquale, D. K. (2021). Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines. Socius, 7. https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211058026
Moody, James W., Lisa A. Keister, and Dana K. Pasquale. “Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines.Socius 7 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1177/23780231211058026.
Moody JW, Keister LA, Pasquale DK. Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines. Socius. 2021;7.
Moody, James W., et al. “Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines.Socius, vol. 7, 2021. Pubmed, doi:10.1177/23780231211058026.
Moody JW, Keister LA, Pasquale DK. Community Effectiveness of Masks and Vaccines. Socius. 2021;7.
Journal cover image

Published In

Socius

DOI

ISSN

2378-0231

Publication Date

2021

Volume

7

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • 4410 Sociology