Assessing the impact of Australia's mass vaccination campaigns over the Delta and Omicron outbreaks.
Lixin LinHaydar DemirhanSimon P Johnstone-RobertsonRajiv LalJames M TrauerLewi StonePublished in: PloS one (2024)
The Australian vaccination campaign was successful in reducing mortality over 2022, relative to alternative hypothetical vaccination scenarios. The success was attributable to the Australian public's high levels of engagement with vaccination in the face of new SARS-COV-2 variants, and because high levels of vaccination coverage (full and booster) were achieved in the period shortly before the major Omicron outbreak of 2022.