Long-term protection associated with COVID-19 vaccination and prior infection

MW Tenforde, R Link-Gelles, MM Patel - Jama, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
COVID-19 vaccines are considered to have prevented an estimated tens of millions of SARS-
CoV-2 infections and tens of thousands of COVID-19–related deaths in the US. 1 However,
the combination of reduced vaccine effectiveness against infection in the setting of Omicron
sublineages and increased vaccination coverage2 has resulted in an increasing number of
cases among vaccinated individuals. Designing and interpreting postauthorization,
observational COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness studies have also become increasingly …