To isolate or not to isolate: the impact of changing behavior on COVID-19 transmission.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused more than 25 million cases and 800 thousand deaths worldwide to date. In early days of the pandemic, neither vaccines nor therapeutic drugs were available for this novel coronavirus. All measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 are thus based on reducing contact between infected and susceptible individuals.

The impact of rotavirus vaccination on discounted net tax revenue in Egypt: a government perspective analysis.

Background: We evaluated national rotavirus (RV) immunization programme costs to estimate how resulting changes in morbidity and mortality will influence government fiscal accounts over time. The assumption was that increased childhood survival in vaccinated cohorts leads to increased numbers of children consuming government resource, and an increased number of future tax payers.

Objective: Our objective was to evaluate the difference in lifetime discounted net tax revenue generated by RV vaccinated and unvaccinated cohorts from the Egyptian government perspective.

Cost-benefit analysis of a rotavirus immunization program in the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Background: The availability of rotavirus vaccines makes the implementation of a national immunization program an important decision requiring economic considerations.

Methods: A cost-benefit analysis of a national rotavirus immunization program in Egypt, from the perspective of the Ministry of Health and Population, and a cost-effectiveness analysis, from a societal perspective, were conducted.

Results: For a birth cohort of 1.