Vaccine effectiveness against severe COVID-19 during the Omicron wave in Germany: results from the COViK study

Purpose COViK, a prospective hospital-based multicenter case-control study in Germany, aims to assess the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against severe disease. Here, we report vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19-caused hospitalization and intensive care treatment during the Omicron wave. Methods We analyzed data from 276 cases with COVID-19 and 494 control patients recruited in 13 hospitals from 1 December 2021 to 5 September 2022. We calculated crude and confounder-adjusted VE estimates. Results 21% of cases (57/276) were not vaccinated, compared to 5% of controls (26/494; p < 0.001). Confounder-adjusted VE against COVID-19-caused hospitalization was 55.4% (95% CI: 12–78%), 81.5% (95% CI: 68–90%) and 95.6% (95%CI: 88–99%) after two, three and four vaccine doses, respectively. VE against hospitalization due to COVID-19 remained stable up to one year after three vaccine doses. Conclusion Three vaccine doses remained highly effective in preventing severe disease and this protection was sustained; a fourth dose further increased protection..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:51

Enthalten in:

Infection - 51(2023), 4 vom: 13. März, Seite 1093-1102

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Englisch

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Stoliaroff-Pepin, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Peine, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Herath, Tim [VerfasserIn]
Lachmann, Johannes [VerfasserIn]
Hellenbrand, Wiebke [VerfasserIn]
Perriat, Delphine [VerfasserIn]
Dörre, Achim [VerfasserIn]
Nitsche, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Michel, Janine [VerfasserIn]
Grossegesse, Marica [VerfasserIn]
Hofmann, Natalie [VerfasserIn]
Rinner, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Kohl, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Brinkmann, Annika [VerfasserIn]
Meyer, Tanja [VerfasserIn]
Stern, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Treindl, Fridolin [VerfasserIn]
Dorner, Brigitte G. [VerfasserIn]
Hein, Sascha [VerfasserIn]
Werel, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Hildt, Eberhard [VerfasserIn]
Gläser, Sven [VerfasserIn]
Schühlen, Helmut [VerfasserIn]
Isner, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Peric, Alexander [VerfasserIn]
Ghouzi, Ammar [VerfasserIn]
Reichardt, Annette [VerfasserIn]
Janneck, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Lock, Guntram [VerfasserIn]
Huster, Dominik [VerfasserIn]
Grünewald, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Schaade, Lars [VerfasserIn]
Wichmann, Ole [VerfasserIn]
Harder, Thomas [VerfasserIn]

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COVID-19
Case-control study
Hospitalization
Omicron
SARS-CoV-2
Vaccine effectiveness

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© The Author(s) 2023

doi:

10.1007/s15010-023-02012-z

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OLC214451836X