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. 2021 Dec 10;40(3):512–520. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2021.11.092

Table 2.

Covid-19 vaccine effectiveness for primary and secondary analyses, with calendar time as the model time-scale.*

Analysis Vaccinated
Unvaccinated
VE
Person-days Positive cases Incidence rate per 10,000 person-days Person-days Positive cases Incidence rate per 10,000 person-days Unadjusted
(1-HR)
Adjusted
(1-HR)
Two-dose VE against any infection 68,574 4 0.58 10,027 9 8.98 95.4% (84.8%-98.6%) 94.5% (82.6%-98.2%)
Two-dose VE against symptomatic infection 68,605 2 0.29 10,027 9 8.98 97.4% (88%-99.4%) 97% (72%-99.7%)
Two-dose VE against any infection (14 days after second dose) 61,620 4 0.65 10,027 9 8.98 95.4% (84.8%-98.6%) 94.5% (82.5%-98.2%)
Two-dose VE against any infection including participants regardless of how many weekly specimens they provided (Extended Cohort 1)** 67,230 4 0.59 9229 9 9.75 95.6% (85.6%-98.7%) 94.8% (83.4%-98.4%)
Two-dose VE against any infection, excluding only participants who were seropositive at enrollment and/or PCR-positive before or at enrollment (Extended Cohort 2) 75,388 6 0.80 10,888 10 9.18 94% (83.3%-97.8%) 92.3% (80.5%-96.9%)

Notes: *All VE analyses were performed for two-dose vaccination with follow-up beginning 7 days after second vaccine unless specified otherwise.

**Extended Cohort 1 included participants who had a negative enrollment serology and were not previously infected by PCR, regardless of how many weekly specimens they provided during the follow-up period.

Abbreviations VE, vaccine effectiveness HR, hazards ratio PCR, polymerase chain reaction