Counterfactuals of effects of vaccination and public health measures on COVID-19 cases in Canada: What could have happened?
Can Commun Dis Rep
; 48(7-8): 292-302, 2022 Jul 07.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2204033
ABSTRACT
This study illustrates what may have happened, in terms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infections, hospitalizations and deaths in Canada, had public health measures not been used to control the COVID-19 epidemic, and had restrictions been lifted with low levels of vaccination, or no vaccination, of the Canadian population. The timeline of the epidemic in Canada, and the public health interventions used to control the epidemic, are reviewed. Comparisons against outcomes in other countries and counterfactual modelling illustrate the relative success of control of the epidemic in Canada. Together, these observations show that without the use of restrictive measures and without high levels of vaccination, Canada could have experienced substantially higher numbers of infections and hospitalizations and almost a million deaths.
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MEDLINE
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Vaccines
Language:
English
Journal:
Can Commun Dis Rep
Journal subject:
Communicable Diseases
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Epidemiology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
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