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Impact of the additional/booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine against severe disease during the epidemic phase characterized by the predominance of the Omicron variant in Italy, December 2021 - May 2022

2022-04-27

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Vaccine effectiveness (VE) against emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants is a growing issue. The aim of this work is to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 additional/booster dose against COVID-19-related symptoms, hospitalization, and death using surveillance data (December 2021-May 2022) from the Italian National Institute of Health (ISS). As of 18 May 2022, for people fully vaccinated with three doses, VE was 87.8% (95%...

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6e8f30a0-4223-5c19-8abe-ac4d3d04eb6a
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10.1101/2022.04.21.22273567
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