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Protection against severe COVID-19 after second booster dose of adapted bivalent (original/Omicron BA.4-5) mRNA vaccine in persons ≥ 60 years, by time since infection, Italy, 12 September to 11 December 2022
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Massimo Fabiani1
, Alberto Mateo-Urdiales1 , Chiara Sacco1,2 , Emmanouil Alexandros Fotakis1,2 , Maria Cristina Rota1 , Daniele Petrone1 , Marco Bressi1 , Martina Del Manso1 , Andrea Siddu3 , Giorgio Fedele1 , Paola Stefanelli1 , Antonino Bella1 , Flavia Riccardo1 , Anna Teresa Palamara1 , Giovanni Rezza3 , Silvio Brusaferro4 , Patrizio Pezzotti1 , on behalf of the Italian Integrated Surveillance of COVID-19 study group and of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccines Registry group5
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 2 European Programme on Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Stockholm, Sweden 3 General Directorate of Prevention, Italian Ministry of Health, Rome, Italy 4 Office of the President, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy 5 The members of the group are listed under AcknowledgementsMassimo Fabianimassimo.fabiani iss.it
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Citation style for this article: Fabiani Massimo, Mateo-Urdiales Alberto, Sacco Chiara, Fotakis Emmanouil Alexandros, Rota Maria Cristina, Petrone Daniele, Bressi Marco, Del Manso Martina, Siddu Andrea, Fedele Giorgio, Stefanelli Paola, Bella Antonino, Riccardo Flavia, Palamara Anna Teresa, Rezza Giovanni, Brusaferro Silvio, Pezzotti Patrizio, on behalf of the Italian Integrated Surveillance of COVID-19 study group and of the Italian COVID-19 Vaccines Registry group. Protection against severe COVID-19 after second booster dose of adapted bivalent (original/Omicron BA.4-5) mRNA vaccine in persons ≥ 60 years, by time since infection, Italy, 12 September to 11 December 2022. Euro Surveill. 2023;28(8):pii=2300105. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2023.28.8.2300105 Received: 12 Feb 2023; Accepted: 21 Feb 2023
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Effectiveness against severe COVID-19 of a second booster dose of the bivalent (original/BA.4–5) mRNA vaccine 7–90 days post-administration, relative to a first booster dose of an mRNA vaccine received ≥ 120 days earlier, was ca 60% both in persons ≥ 60 years never infected and in those infected > 6 months before. Relative effectiveness in those infected 4–6 months earlier indicated no significant additional protection (10%; 95% CI: −44 to 44). A second booster vaccination 6 months after the latest infection may be warranted.

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