Effectiveness of Adapted COVID-19 Vaccines and Ability to Establish Herd Immunity against Omicron BA.1 and BA4-5 Variants of SARS-CoV-2
Pedro Plans-Rubió · 2023
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Description
Pedro Plans-Rubió judges updated COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron strains in a 2023 study. New variants raised fair doubts about whether booster campaigns could build herd immunity. Adapted vaccines were tuned to Omicron lines, first the early one and then later subvariants.
A systematic review pooled absolute effectiveness against infection from the literature. Herd prospects were then weighed with spread rates and non-drug measures in the mix. Meta-analysis supplied the core effectiveness figures for both variant waves. A vaccine can protect its taker yet still fall short of herd thresholds. That split verdict is the sober heart of the study.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Pedro Plans-Rubió |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |