{"id":9632,"date":"2021-05-06T16:58:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T23:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9632"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T23:59:42","slug":"association-between-vaccination-with-bnt162b2-and-incidence-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-among-health-care-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/association-between-vaccination-with-bnt162b2-and-incidence-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-among-health-care-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Association Between Vaccination With BNT162b2 and Incidence of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Health Care Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was associated with a 93% lower incidence of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and 86% lower incidence of asymptomatic infection more than 7 days after the second dose in a retrospective cohort of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Israel (n=6,710). The median follow-up period was 63 days. While vaccination was associated with older age and male sex, a sensitivity analysis using propensity score matching found similar results. HCWs with prior SARS-CoV-2 infection were excluded from the study.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Angel et al.\u00a0(May 6, 2021). Association Between Vaccination With BNT162b2 and Incidence of Symptomatic and Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections Among Health Care Workers. JAMA. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2779853\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2779853<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was associated with a 93% lower incidence of symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection and 86% lower incidence of asymptomatic infection more than 7 days after the second dose in a retrospective cohort of healthcare workers (HCWs) in Israel (n=6,710). The median follow-up period was 63 days. While vaccination was associated with older age and&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/05\/06\/association-between-vaccination-with-bnt162b2-and-incidence-of-symptomatic-and-asymptomatic-sars-cov-2-infections-among-health-care-workers\/\">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":[107,33],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-asymptomatic-infection","tag-vaccines","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632","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=9632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9633,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9632\/revisions\/9633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9632"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}