• FluTrackers.com Inc. does not provide medical advice. Information on this web site is collected from various internet resources, and the FluTrackers board of directors makes no warranty to the safety, efficacy, correctness or completeness of the information posted on this site by any author or poster. The information collated here is for instructional and/or discussion purposes only and is NOT intended to diagnose or treat any disease, illness, or other medical condition. Every individual reader or poster should seek advice from their personal physician/healthcare practitioner before considering or using any interventions that are discussed on this website. By continuing to access this website you agree to consult your personal physican before using any interventions posted on this website, and you agree to hold harmless FluTrackers.com Inc., the board of directors, the members, and all authors and posters for any effects from use of any medication, supplement, vitamin or other substance, device, intervention, etc. mentioned in posts on this website, or other internet venues referenced in posts on this website.
  • We are not asking for any donations. Do not donate to any entity who says they are raising funds for us.

Open Forum Infect Dis . Additional Burden Averted in the United States From Use of MF59-Adjuvanted Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Compared With Standard

tetano

Editor, Senior Moderator
Open Forum Infect Dis


. 2023 Aug 9;10(8):ofad429.
doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad429. eCollection 2023 Aug. Additional Burden Averted in the United States From Use of MF59-Adjuvanted Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Compared With Standard Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Among Adults ≥65 Years

Ian McGovern[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Aditya Sardesai[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Alexandra Taylor[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hector Toro-Diaz[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mendel Haag[SUP] 4 [/SUP]



Affiliations
Abstract

Background: The MF59-adjuvanted trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (aIIV3) is designed to overcome immunosenescence and enhance vaccine responses in older adults. We expanded on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) modeling method to estimate the number of additional influenza-related outcomes averted with aIIV3 versus generic quadrivalent inactivated influenza vaccine (IIV4) in adults ≥65 years over 3 influenza seasons (2017-2018 to 2019-2020) in the United States.
Methods: A static compartmental model was developed based on an existing CDC model with 2 previously recommended calculation methods that increased the accuracy of the model in providing estimates of burden averted. Model inputs included vaccine effectiveness, vaccine coverage, population counts, and disease burden estimates. Additional burden averted (symptomatic cases, outpatient visits, hospitalizations, intensive care unit [ICU] admissions, and deaths) was expressed as total incremental cases averted between the vaccines. Sensitivity analyses tested the resilience of the model results to uncertainties in model inputs.
Results: The model estimated that vaccination with aIIV3 versus IIV4 would avert 2.24 times as many symptomatic cases, outpatient visits, hospitalizations, ICU stays, and deaths during 2017-2018; the burden averted in 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 with aIIV3 would be 3.44 and 1.72 times that averted with IIV4, respectively. Disease burden estimates and relative vaccine effectiveness of aIIV3 had the greatest impact on model estimates.
Conclusions: Over 3 influenza seasons, the model estimated that aIIV3 was more effective than IIV4 in averting influenza-related outcomes, preventing 1.72 to 3.44 times as many influenza illnesses with proportionate decreases in related healthcare use and complications.

Keywords: MF59-adjuvanted trivalent inactivated influenza vaccine; disease burden; influenza; modeling; older adults.

 
Back
Top Bottom