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- Title
Understanding and Improving Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the Age of Widespread Background Immunity: A Step Toward Improved Science Communication.
- Authors
Nirenberg, Edward; Perencevich, Eli N
- Abstract
Medical decision making and scientific communication around coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines and booster doses requires proper understanding of how vaccine effectiveness estimates are determined and the potential biases inherent in current estimates. The importance of background immunity from prior infection is reviewed along with ideas for improving the vaccine effectiveness estimates.
- Subjects
HEALTH policy; COVID-19; IMMUNIZATION; VACCINE effectiveness; IMMUNITY; COMMUNICATION; QUALITY of life; DECISION making in clinical medicine
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2023, Vol 76, Issue 9, p1535
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciad124