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. 2023 Jun 26;23:432. doi: 10.1186/s12879-023-08328-3

Table 2.

Rates of previously infected (PI) individuals in cohorts infected with different variants of SARS-CoV-2 stratified by vaccination status

Study Country/Study type Description Negative cohorts
% (n/N)
Delta (or other) infected cohorts
% (n/N)
Omicron infected cohorts
% (n/N) or % (n)
P value
Eggink et al. [35]

Netherlands

Case only approach cohort study

Naïve (no PI no vaccine) -

37.1%

(34,765/93734)

27.4% (22,071/80615) NR
PI unvaccinated -

1.4%

(1295/93734)

6.5% (5253/80615) NR
Andeweg et al. [61]

Netherlands

Cohort study

Of the infected people the presented % were:

Naïve

(no PI no vaccine)

30.2% (90,945/300849) 52.8% (21,042/39889) 24.7% (3440/13915) BA.1 NR
PI unvaccinated 4.2% (12,691/300849) 1.6% (638/39889) 5.3% (739/13915) BA.1 NR
First start primary vaccination, then infection 1.1% (3406/300849) 0.2% (76/39889) 1.7% (240/13915) BA.1 NR
First infection, then primary vaccination 2.3% (7002/300849) 0.3% (139/39889) 2.1% (293/13915) BA.1 NR
PI, booster 0.3% (918/300849) 0% (2/39889) 0.5% (65/13915) BA.1 NR
Kahn et al. [45]

Sweden

Cohort study

PI unvaccinated (0–1 dose) - 2.7% (265/9680) 7.1% (562/7861) PI NR
Vaccinated (2–3 dose) - 2.3% (94/4031) 6.3% (1376/21678) PI NR
Kislaya et al. [46]

Portugal

Data linkage

Case-case study

Naïve

(no PI no vaccine)

- 10.6% (888) 6% (315) NR
PI unvaccinated - 1.3% (108) 6.2% (327) NR
No PI partial vaccination - 1.3% (112) 1.3% (68) NR
PI partial/complete vaccination - 0.3% (25) 0.84% (44) NR
No PI complete vaccination - 88.6% (7245) 85.7% (4515) NR
Nunes et al. [39]

South Africa

Cohort study

PI 41.6% (101) - 27.9% (53) 0.003
Naïve (no PI no vaccine) 10.8% (23) - 13.2% (23) NR
PI, no vaccines 6.5% (14) - 5.2% (9) NR
No PI, J&J 48.6% (104) - 56.9% (99) NR
PI + J&J 34.1% (73) - 24.7% (43) NR
Spensley et al. [41]

UK

Cohort study

PI overall 53.5% (516/965) - 43.4% (63/145) 0.024
PI + ChAdOx1 - - 46.2% (226/489) 0.75
PI + BNT1262b2 - - 47.2% (260/551) 0.75

N Total number of subjects in the cohort

n number of subjects who were PI or as specified in each row