High vaccine effectiveness against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe disease among residents and staff of long-term care facilities in Norway, November 2020–June 2021

Jostein Starrfelt; Anders Skyrud Danielsen; Oliver Kacelnik; Anita Wang Børseth; Elina Seppälä; Hinta Meijerink

doi:10.1017/ash.2021.246

Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (Jan 2022)

High vaccine effectiveness against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and severe disease among residents and staff of long-term care facilities in Norway, November 2020–June 2021

Jostein Starrfelt,
Anders Skyrud Danielsen,
Oliver Kacelnik,
Anita Wang Børseth,
Elina Seppälä,
Hinta Meijerink

Affiliations

Jostein Starrfelt: ORCiD; Department of Infection Control and Preparedness, Norwegian institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Anders Skyrud Danielsen: ORCiD; Department of Infection Control and Preparedness, Norwegian institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway Department of Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Oliver Kacelnik: ORCiD; Department of Infection Control and Preparedness, Norwegian institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Anita Wang Børseth: ORCiD; Department of Infection Control and Preparedness, Norwegian institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
Elina Seppälä: Department of Infection Control and Vaccines, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden
Hinta Meijerink: ORCiD; Department of Infection Control and Vaccines, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2021.246
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2

Abstract

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Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes high morbidity and mortality in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness against infection was 81.5% and 81.4% among fully vaccinated residents and staff in LTCFs. The vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19-associated death was 93.1% among residents, and no hospitalizations occurred among fully vaccinated staff.

Published in Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology

ISSN: 2732-494X (Online)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Infectious and parasitic diseases; Medicine: Public aspects of medicine
Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antimicrobial-stewardship-and-healthcare-epidemiology

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