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The Economic Frontiers Program investigated different aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic and pandemics in general and published their work in a wide range of scientific journals. The research on Covid-19 related topics in the Economic Frontiers Program can be clustered into four categories.
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Vaccine emergence and resistance
With the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic an issue of controlling the evolution and spread of novel variants is becoming very important. Yuliya Kulikova together with colleagues investigated the three main factors of particular epidemiological concern: higher infectivity, immunogenic drift (vaccine resistance), and increased virulence. In a new project, they also investigated how complex vaccination strategies can prevent the emergence of vaccine resistance.