Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Immunization Unit, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Infection. 2023 Aug;51(4):1093-1102. doi: 10.1007/s15010-023-02012-z. Epub 2023 Mar 13.
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.
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.
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.
Three vaccine doses remained highly effective in preventing severe disease and this protection was sustained; a fourth dose further increased protection.
COViK 是一项在德国进行的前瞻性医院多中心病例对照研究,旨在评估 COVID-19 疫苗对严重疾病的有效性。在这里,我们报告了在奥密克戎(Omicron)浪潮期间 COVID-19 疫苗对住院和重症监护治疗的有效性(VE)。
我们分析了 2021 年 12 月 1 日至 2022 年 9 月 5 日期间在 13 家医院招募的 276 例 COVID-19 病例和 494 例对照患者的数据。我们计算了粗 VE 和混杂因素调整后的 VE 估计值。
21%(57/276)的病例未接种疫苗,而 5%(26/494)的对照未接种疫苗(p<0.001)。混杂因素调整后的 COVID-19 导致住院的 VE 分别为 55.4%(95%CI:12-78%)、81.5%(95%CI:68-90%)和 95.6%(95%CI:88-99%),分别在接种两、三、四剂疫苗后。接种三剂疫苗后一年,预防 COVID-19 住院的 VE 仍然稳定。
三剂疫苗对预防严重疾病仍然高度有效,并且这种保护作用是持续的;第四剂进一步增加了保护作用。