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Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines administered in the 2023 autumnal campaigns in Europe: Results from the VEBIS primary care test-negative design study, September 2023-January 2024.

Lanièce Delauney, c., Melo, A., Maurel, M., Mazagatos, C., Goerlitz, L., O'Donnell, J., Oroszi, B., Sève, N., Rodrigues, A.P., Martínez-Baz, I., Meijer, A., Mlinarić, I., Latorre-Margalef, N., Lazar, M., Pérez-Gimeno, G., Dürrwald, R., Bennett, C., Túri, G., Rameix-Welti, M.A., Guiomar, R., Castilla, J., Hooiveld, M., Kurečić Filipović, S., Samuelsson Hagey, T., Dijkstra, F., Borges, V., Ramos Marín, V., Bacci, S., Kaczmarek, M., Kissling, E. Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines administered in the 2023 autumnal campaigns in Europe: Results from the VEBIS primary care test-negative design study, September 2023-January 2024. Vaccine: 2024
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In autumn 2023, European vaccination campaigns predominantly administered XBB.1.5 vaccine. In a European multicentre study, we estimated 2023 COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness (VE) against laboratory-confirmed symptomatic infection at primary care level between September 2023 and January 2024.

Using a test-negative case-control design, we estimated VE in the target group for COVID-19 vaccination overall and by time since vaccination. We included 1057 cases and 4397 controls. Vaccine effectiveness was 40 % (95 % CI: 26-53 %) overall, 48 % (95 % CI: 31-61 %) among those vaccinated < 6 weeks of onset and 29 % (95 % CI: 3-49 %) at 6-14 weeks.

Our results suggest that COVID-19 vaccines administered to target groups during the autumn 2023 campaigns showed clinically significant effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed, medically attended symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in the 3 months following vaccination. A longer study period will allow for further variant-specific COVID-19 VE estimates, better understanding decline in VE and informing booster administration policies.