VACCELERATE symposium: Effectiveness of vaccination against COVID-19

Four distinguished speakers will discuss their observational studies that have assessed the effectiveness of vaccination against infection and severity of disease.

Speakers:

Nick Andrews (UK Health Security Agency, London, UK): COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness against the Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant

Fredrik Kahn (Lund University, Lund, SE): Risk of severe COVID-19 from the Delta and Omicron variants in relation to vaccination status, sex, age and comorbidities – surveillance results from southern Sweden, July 2021 to January 2022

Frederik Plesner Lyngse (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, DK): Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron VOC subvariants BA.1 and BA.2: Evidence from Danish Households

Laith Jamal Abu-Raddad (Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, Doha, Qatar): Effect of mRNA Vaccine Boosters against SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Infection in Qatar

Registration here: https://uni-koeln.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_TGpD1xZsTJugSwev4VMkbQ