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| 1 | +# Covasim Case Study: Prioritising Vaccination for the Elderly |
| 2 | +In this case study, we demonstrate how to use causal testing to determine whether prioritising the elderly |
| 3 | +has the expected effect on a series of vaccine-related outcomes. Specifically, cumulative infections, vaccines (number |
| 4 | +of doses administered), vaccinated (number of agents vaccinated), and maximum doses per agent. As explained in Section |
| 5 | +5.3 (Prioritising the elderly for vaccination), we expect that changing the Pfizer vaccine to additionally prioritise |
| 6 | +the elderly should cause vaccines and vaccinated to decrease (more restrictive policy), infections to increase (less |
| 7 | +are vaccinated), and no change to the maximum doses since this should always be 2. |
| 8 | + |
| 9 | +This case study directly executes Covasim under two input configurations that differ only in their vaccine input: one |
| 10 | +is the default Pfizer vaccine, the other is the same vaccine but additionally sub-targeting the elderly using a method |
| 11 | +provided in the Covasim vaccine tutorial. We execute each of these input configurations 30 times and repeat this for |
| 12 | +four test cases: one focusing on each of the four previously mentioned outputs. |
| 13 | + |
| 14 | +Further details are provided in Section 5.3 (Prioritising the elderly for vaccination) of the paper. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +## How to run |
| 17 | +To run this case study: |
| 18 | +1. Ensure all project dependencies are installed by running `pip install .` from the top |
| 19 | +level of this directory (instructions are provided in the project README). |
| 20 | +2. Additionally, in order to run Covasim, install version 3.07 by running `pip install covasim==3.0.7`. |
| 21 | +3. Change directory to `causal_testing/examples/covasim_/vaccinating_elderly`. |
| 22 | +4. Run the command `python causal_test_vaccine.py`. |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +This will run Covasim as described above and print out the causal test results for the effect of each input on each |
| 25 | +output. |
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