Table 2.
Protective effect of the prior infection against the reinfection with BA.5.
| Variant of the first infection | Uninfected with BA.5 |
First infection |
Infection with BA.5 |
Absolute risk | Relative Risk | Protection effectiveness (1−RR) (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 106,315,551 | – | 8,680,807 | ||||
| Wuhan | 410,783 | 18,036 | 0.044 | 0.54 | 46.2 | |
| Alpha | 297,250 | 15,728 | 0.053 | 0.65 | 35.2 | |
| Delta | 670,702 | 32,515 | 0.048 | 0.59 | 40.6 | |
| BA.1/BA.2 | 6,949,419 | 148,235 | 0.021 | 0.26 | 73.9 | |
| Any variants | 8,328,154 | 214,514 | 0.026 | 0.32 | 68.5 |