Correction: A spatial vaccination strategy to reduce the risk of vaccine-resistant variants.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.

A spatial vaccination strategy to reduce the risk of vaccine-resistant variants.

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that the process of global vaccination against a novel virus can be a prolonged one. Social distancing measures, that are initially adopted to control the pandemic, are gradually relaxed as vaccination progresses and population immunity increases. The result is a prolonged period of high disease prevalence combined with a fitness advantage for vaccine-resistant variants, which together lead to a considerably increased probability for vaccine escape.