Combined vaccination and physical distancing enough to prevent future COVID-19 surges

(University of Southampton) A combination of robust vaccination programmes and strict physical distancing could avoid recurring peaks of COVID-19 without the need for stay-at-home restrictions, according to a new study by epidemiologists and demographers from WorldPop at the University of Southampton and The Chinese University of Hong Kong.Using anonymised mobile phone geolocation data with epidemiological and coronavirus case data from China, the team predicted the effect of combinations of int...