AUTHOR=Xu Weibin , Lau Chi Keung Marco , Zhang Dongna , Oke Oladoke 

TITLE=Testing the Club Convergence Dynamics of the COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Across the OECD Countries

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health

VOLUME=Volume 10 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.872561

DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2022.872561

ISSN=2296-2565

ABSTRACT=Vaccines are essential to create a more resilient economic growth model. Ending the COVID-19 pandemic requires a more coordinated, effective, and equitable distribution of vaccines across the countries. Therefore, governments are in a race to increase the vaccination rates of the population. Given this backdrop, this paper focuses on the daily vaccinations per million data from March 1, 2021, to October 15, 2021, in 37 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and examines the stochastic properties of the vaccination rates. The results indicate a significant convergence of the vaccination rates in seven clubs across 30 OECD countries. The paper also discusses the potential implications for the post-COVID-19 era.