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Covid-19 Breakthrough Infections in Vaccinated Health Care Workers

2021; Massachusetts Medical Society; Volume: 385; Issue: 16 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1056/nejmoa2109072

ISSN

1533-4406

Autores

Moriah Bergwerk, Tal Gonen, Yaniv Lustig, Sharon Amit, Marc Lipsitch, Carmit Cohen, Michal Mandelboim, E G Levin, Carmit Rubin, Victoria Indenbaum, Ilana Tal, Malka Zavitan, Neta S. Zuckerman, Adina Bar‐Chaim, Yitshak Kreiss, Gili Regev‐Yochay,

Tópico(s)

Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy

Resumo

Despite the high efficacy of the BNT162b2 messenger RNA vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), rare breakthrough infections have been reported, including infections among health care workers. Data are needed to characterize these infections and define correlates of breakthrough and infectivity.

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