Estimated Testing, Tracing, and Vaccination Targets for Containment of the US Mpox Outbreak

Melanie H Chitwood; Jiye Kwon; Alexandra Savinkina; Jo Walker; Alyssa Bilinski; Gregg Gonsalves

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50984

Estimated Testing, Tracing, and Vaccination Targets for Containment of the US Mpox Outbreak

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Jan 3;6(1):e2250984. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.50984.

Authors

Melanie H Chitwood^{1

2}, Jiye Kwon^{1

2}, Alexandra Savinkina^{1

2}, Jo Walker^{1

2}, Alyssa Bilinski^{3

4}, Gregg Gonsalves^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Department of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.
⁴ Department of Biostatistics, Brown School of Public Health, Providence, Rhode Island.

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Plain language summary

This decision analytic model estimates the levels of community testing, contract tracing, and vaccination required to reduce the effective reproduction number of the mpox virus among the high-risk group of men who have sex with men.

MeSH terms

Disease Outbreaks* / prevention & control
Humans
Mpox (monkeypox)* / epidemiology
Mpox (monkeypox)* / prevention & control
United States
Vaccination*

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