Deciding which interventions are worth adopting 

After 12 months of public health emergency.

Two vaccines are at the end of a phase 3 clinical trial and will be made available by the Ministry of Health following approval by ANVISA (Brazilian Agency responsible for medicaments approval) within 2 weeks. The municipality will receive a batch of each vaccine with the following characteristics:

Vaccine 1 – overall efficacy of 80% decreasing hospitalization.

Vaccine 2 – overall efficacy of 60% reducing clinical complications.

The local authority is responsible for organizing the logistics to vaccination, prioritizing risk groups and priority areas.

Also, a big university research group is planning a study and has reached out to you.

Questions to consider

• Which information about those vaccines are essential to effective implementation and for logistics to achieve the greatest impact in the municipality? Are there reliable alternatives?
• Which logistic possibilities are available to organize a vaccination campaign to target groups?
• What information could contribute to a better monitoring of the vaccination and future impacts? How to deal with vaccine hesitancy?
• Which other prevention measures could be implemented to lower the transmission in the community?
• Which questions would you want to be answered in partnership with the university?

What is expected of the group on day 4

Propose paths and responses based on a broader and more critical knowledge of the facts that arise during the health crisis.