arisp99 / cavaccines

Package to examine associations between vaccination rates and disease incidence in California counties.

CAvaccines

The goal of CAvaccines is to analyze the relationship between vaccination rates and infectious disease incidence in California counties.

Installation

To install the package, please run the code below. In order to install, devtools must be installed and loaded.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("arisp99/CAvaccines")

Usage

In order to run the main script, please refer to the included vignettes. These can also be found under the Articles tab in the website.

Details

Motivation

With the recent COVID-19 pandemic, a large number of scientists and companies have rushed to help the world. On the forefront of everyone’s mind is how can a vaccine be developed to combat the pandemic. Vaccines play a huge role in the world and are essential to the fight against infectious diseases. It has been seen, time and time again, that vaccine protect against deadly pathogens and save lives. However, disease outbreaks still occur. The reasons for these outbreaks are not fully understood.

Aims

The aim of this package, therefore, was to provide a system for understanding the relationship between vaccination rates and disease incidence. The package focuses on the state of California, USA and provides two main datasets, one for vaccination rates, and one for disease incidence of pertussis in California counties from the years of 2008 till 2017.

Data

The data is detailed in full in the associated help pages, but we summarize the datasets below.

• county_vaccination is a dataset containing information about vaccination rates of K-12 students for each CA county for the years of 2008-2017. The dataset contains the total number of students enrolled in K-12 schools in each county and various vaccination rates. These include, but are not limited to, the number and percent of students that are up to data on vaccinations, the number of percent of students with a personal medical exemption, the number and percent of students with a personal belief exemption, and the number and percent of students with an up to data DTP vaccination.
• pertussis is a dataset containing all pertussis cases, arranged by county, from the years of 2008-2017 in the state of California. The dataset contains the number of cases and the number of cases per 100,000 people for every county and every year.