Limited protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and virus transmission after mRNA vaccination
Lea Hsu, Hilmar Wisplinghoff, Annelene Kossow, Julia Hurraß, Gerhard A Wiesmüller, Barbara Grüne, Dennis Hoffmann, Jessica Lüsebrink, Sabrina Demuth, Oliver Schildgen, Verena Schildgen
Journal of Infection, doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.023
Predominance of delta variant among the COVID-19 vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, India, May 2021 Dear Sir, * p = 0.003 for the proportions with severe disease among fully vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. * * p value (1-tail) = 0.018 for the proportions of deaths among fully vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals. * * * p value (1-tail) = 0.046 for the proportions of deaths among partially vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
Ethical statement This research was approved by the University of Campus Biomedico Ethics Review Committee (Approval number 8.1(21).21 OSS).
Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare no competing interests.
Supplementary materials Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi: 10.1016/j.jinf.2021.06.026 .
Ethical approval The study was approved by the Medical Ethical Committee of Sechenov Moscow Medical University (protocol number 08-20/1).
CRediT authorship contribution statement Sergey
Supplementary materials Supplementary material associated with this article can be found, in the online version, at doi:10.1016/j.jinf.2021.07.032 . In our prospective cohort study, which included 1958 HCWs vaccinated with the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine between January 1 and March 30, 2021, 22 HCWs were infected with SARS-CoV-2 ≤ 14 days after the first vaccine dose and had the second dose postponed > 2 months. The anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibody response in this group of HCWs (group A: concomitant infection) was compared with that observed in other groups: i.e., HCWs who got infected from March 2020 to November 2020 and were vaccinated in January 2021 (group B: prior infection, ≥ 2 months, n = 55); HCWs who got infected in December 2020 and had vaccination postponed > 1 month (group C: prior infection, < 2 months, n = 26), and naïve HCWs, who were regularly vaccinated in January 2021 (group D: naïve, n = 55). Group A..
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