The global effort to develop and distribute effective COVID-19 vaccines offers a ray of hope to combat the ongoing pandemic. The pandemic can be contained rapidly if a vaccine can prevent SARS-CoV-2 transmission from vaccinated yet infected people to those who are healthy but vulnerable to infection. Due to high rates of secondary infection among household members, scientists believe that studying households is the ideal method to assess the effect of COVID-19 vaccines on the transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers have evaluated the effectiveness of the BNT162b2 vaccine by assessing the susceptibility of vaccinated individuals to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the effect of the vaccine on transmitting the infection to household contacts. The findings of this study have been published on the preprint platform, MedRxiv. Methodology The data was obtained from Maccabi Healthcare Services (MHS),…
