{"id":9442,"date":"2021-04-27T10:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2021-04-28T10:17:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T17:17:40","slug":"effectiveness-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-against-sars-cov-2-infection-in-a-cohort-of-healthcare-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/27\/effectiveness-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-against-sars-cov-2-infection-in-a-cohort-of-healthcare-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of MRNA COVID-19 Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Cohort of Healthcare Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were up to 96% effective in preventing PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection following two doses, according a retrospective cohort study of over 45,000 US healthcare personnel. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine accounted for 93% of vaccinations and the Moderna vaccine accounted for 7%. The authors adjusted for age, gender, region, job, and week of vaccination in their analysis. Vaccine effectiveness was 78% among those receiving only one dose (n&gt;4,000).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Swift et al.\u00a0(Apr 26, 2021). Effectiveness of MRNA COVID-19 Vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Cohort of Healthcare Personnel. Clinical Infectious Diseases. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab361\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/cid\/ciab361<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were up to 96% effective in preventing PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection following two doses, according a retrospective cohort study of over 45,000 US healthcare personnel. The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine accounted for 93% of vaccinations and the Moderna vaccine accounted for 7%. The authors adjusted for age, gender, region, job, and week of vaccination&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/27\/effectiveness-of-mrna-covid-19-vaccines-against-sars-cov-2-infection-in-a-cohort-of-healthcare-personnel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[222,223],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccine-breakthrough","tag-vaccine-efficacy","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9443,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9442\/revisions\/9443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9442"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}