Effectiveness of the BNT162b2 mRNA Covid-19 vaccine in Spanish healthcare workers

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Introduction: Frontline health care workers (HCW) have higher risk than the general population to become infected by SARS.CoV.2, so they were a priority group for Covid-19 vaccine administration. We compared the incidence and prevalence of HCW infected pre-and post-vaccination with the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Material and methods: Prospective observational study carried out between 01/12/20 and 07/03/21 in La Paz University Hospital, Madrid (Spain). SARS.CoV.2 positive cases in HCW after vaccination were collected and compared to those hospitalized COVID-19 patients at the same hospital.

Results: Two weeks after finishing the first round of vaccinations daily new cases of HCW infections (symptomatic and asymptomatic) decreased substantially and cumulative cases of infected HCW and hospitalized COVID-19 patients started to diverge. No new positive cases of HCW infection were registered seven days after the second dose of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine.

Conclusions: BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective in Spanish HCW.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:41

Enthalten in:

Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica - 41(2023), 1 vom: 01. Jan., Seite 33-35

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Núñez López, Concepción [VerfasserIn]
González de Abreu, Juan Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Pérez-Blanco, Verónica [VerfasserIn]
de Miguel Buckley, Rosa [VerfasserIn]
Romero Gómez, María Pilar [VerfasserIn]
Díaz-Menéndez, Marta [VerfasserIn]
La Paz Health Care Workers Vaccination Study Group [VerfasserIn]
Appendix. La Paz Health Care Workers Vaccination Study Group [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID
Healthcare workers
Journal Article
SARS-COV2
Vaccine

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Date Revised 11.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.eimc.2021.06.021

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM328794031