The impact of quality-adjusted life years on evaluating COVID-19 mitigation strategies: lessons from age-specific vaccination roll-out and variants of concern in Belgium (2020-2022)

When formulating and evaluating COVID-19 vaccination strategies, an emphasis has been placed on preventing severe disease that overburdens healthcare systems and leads to mortality. However, more conventional outcomes such as quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and inequality indicators are warranted as additional information for policymakers. ; LW, SA, PJKL and NH gratefully acknowledge support from the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) (postdoctoral fellowships 1234620N and 1242021N, RESTORE project G0G2920N and ACCELERATE project G059423N). PJKL. gratefully acknowledges support from the Re... Mehr ...