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BMC MEDICINE
卷 20, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-022-02422-0
关键词
COVID-19; Vaccine breakthrough; EHR data
资金
- Medical Research Council [MR/V015737/1]
- Longitudinal Health and wellbeing strand of the National Core Studies programme
- Wellcome Trust
- NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
- NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley
- Mohn-Westlake Foundation
- NHS England
- Health Foundation
- BG's grants
- Wellcome Senior Research Fellowship [220283/Z/20/Z]
- NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Immunisation
- British Heart Foundation
- MRC
- Wellcome Trust [201375/Z/16/Z]
- UKRI fellowship
- NIHR
- GSK
- Wellcome Trust [201375/Z/16/Z, 220283/Z/20/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
While the majority of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in England were mild, some differences in rates of breakthrough cases have been identified in several clinical groups. Further analysis is needed to assess vaccine waning and rates of breakthrough COVID-19 between different variants in order to identify individuals at higher risk.
Background While the vaccines against COVID-19 are highly effective, COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough is possible despite being fully vaccinated. With SARS-CoV-2 variants still circulating, describing the characteristics of individuals who have experienced COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs could be hugely important in helping to determine who may be at greatest risk. Methods With the approval of NHS England, we conducted a retrospective cohort study using routine clinical data from the OpenSAFELY-TPP database of fully vaccinated individuals, linked to secondary care and death registry data and described the characteristics of those experiencing COVID-19 vaccine breakthroughs. Results As of 1st November 2021, a total of 15,501,550 individuals were identified as being fully vaccinated against COVID-19, with a median follow-up time of 149 days (IQR: 107-179). From within this population, a total of 579,780 (<4%) individuals reported a positive SARS-CoV-2 test. For every 1000 years of patient follow-up time, the corresponding incidence rate (IR) was 98.06 (95% CI 97.93-98.19). There were 28,580 COVID-19-related hospital admissions, 1980 COVID-19-related critical care admissions and 6435 COVID-19-related deaths; corresponding IRs 4.77 (95% CI 4.74-4.80), 0.33 (95% CI 0.32-0.34) and 1.07 (95% CI 1.06-1.09), respectively. The highest rates of breakthrough COVID-19 were seen in those in care homes and in patients with chronic kidney disease, dialysis, transplant, haematological malignancy or who were immunocompromised. Conclusions While the majority of COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough cases in England were mild, some differences in rates of breakthrough cases have been identified in several clinical groups. While it is important to note that these findings are simply descriptive and cannot be used to answer why certain groups have higher rates of COVID-19 breakthrough than others, the emergence of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 coupled with the number of positive SARS-CoV-2 tests still occurring is concerning and as numbers of fully vaccinated (and boosted) individuals increases and as follow-up time lengthens, so too will the number of COVID-19 breakthrough cases. Additional analyses, to assess vaccine waning and rates of breakthrough COVID-19 between different variants, aimed at identifying individuals at higher risk, are needed.
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