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. 2021 Dec 14;28(2):410–422. doi: 10.1038/s41591-021-01630-0

Table 1.

Baseline demographic characteristics of people receiving either ChAdOx1, BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccines or testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus (before or after vaccination), in England between 1 December 2020 and 24 August 2021. Data are presented as column % (counts)

ChAdOx1 BNT162b2 mRNA-1273 ChAdOx1 BNT162b2 mRNA-1273 Positive SARS-CoV-2 test (amongst total vaccinated)
One dose (at least) (n = 38,615,491) Two doses (n = 32,095,748)
Total number of people 20,615,911 16,993,389 1,006,191 19,754,224 11,972,733 368,791 3,028,867
Sex
Women 43.3 (8,918,403) 42.6 (7,233,091) 29.9 (300,567) 43.3 (8,559,325) 47.2 (5,650,542) 33.9 (125,120) 45.7 (1,385,137)
Men 34.9 (7,191,428) 31.8 (5,401,842) 28.5 (286,893) 34.9 (6,900,964) 32.6 (3,906,666) 26.4 (97,524) 32.2 (974,389)
Not recorded 21.9 (4,506,080) 25.6 (4,358,456) 41.6 (418,731) 21.7 (4,293,935) 20.2 (2,415,525) 39.6 (146,147) 22.1 (669,341)
Age
Mean age (s.d.) 55.2 (14.8) 47.8 (21.7) 32.3 (9.4) 55.4 (14.7) 55.5 (20.4) 39.6 (7.3) 44.5 (17.8)
16–29 years 5.2 (1,064,443) 25.2 (4,285,600) 41.4 (416,982) 5.0 (988,291) 10.4 (1,244,710) 6.9 (25,382) 24.4 (738,170)
30–39 years 7.8 (1,598,406) 23.2 (3,945,405) 36.4 (366,327) 7.6 (1,494,285) 20.7 (2,475,091) 43.8 (161,412) 19.0 (574,710)
40+ years 87.1 (17,953,062) 51.6 (8,762,384) 21.2 (222,882) 87.4 (17,271,648) 68.9 (8,252,932) 49.3 (181,997) 56.6 (1,715,987)
Ethnicity
White 55.5 (11,449,387) 52.3 (8,887,419) 40.1 (403,362) 55.8 (11,019,453) 57.8 (6,921,753) 43.0 (158,719) 52.6 (1,593,727)
Indian 1.5 (319,328) 1.7 (288,641) 0.7 (7,406) 1.5 (304,100) 1.8 (217,910) 0.8 (2,975) 2.4 (72,852)
Pakistani 1.0 (214,193) 1.1 (183,917) 0.7 (6,724) 1.0 (191,755) 0.9 (105,414) 0.4 (1,474) 2.1 (64,153)
Bangladeshi 0.4 (81,004) 0.4 (62,128) 0.3 (3,287) 0.4 (74,743) 0.3 (34,927) 0.2 (684) 0.7 (21,585)
Other Asian 0.7 (137,542) 0.8 (134,649) 0.7 (6,648) 0.7 (129,169) 0.8 (90,508) 0.7 (2,488) 1.1 (31,933)
Black Caribbean 0.5 (99,666) 0.4 (62,101) 0.3 (2,734) 0.5 (91,098) 0.4 (47,767) 0.2 (664) 0.5 (14,152)
Black African 0.7 (149,358) 0.7 (115,282) 0.6 (5,929) 0.7 (134,635) 0.6 (73,472) 0.5 (1,679) 0.9 (27,757)
Chinese 0.3 (53,279) 0.3 (43,014) 0.3 (3,261) 0.3 (51,338) 0.3 (30,662) 0.5 (1,691) 0.2 (4,585)
Other ethnic group 1.8 (366,361) 1.9 (321,150) 1.9 (19,313) 1.7 (342,040) 1.7 (208,462) 1.8 (6,795) 2.3 (69,725)
Ethnicity not recorded 37.6 (7,745,793) 40.6 (6,895,088) 54.4 (547,527) 37.5 (7,415,893) 35.4 (4,241,858) 52.0 (191,622) 37.3 (1,128,398)
Number of doses
One dose only 4.1 (835,832) 29.5 (5,007,083) 63.3 (637,335) 25.1 (759,352)
Cardiac inflammation in the previous 2yearsa
Previous myocarditis <0.1 (1,840) <0.1 (1,485) <0.1 (56) <0.1 (1,747) <0.1 (1,220) <0.1 (15) <0.1 (451)
Previous pericarditis <0.1 (1,849) <0.1 (1,508) <0.1 (31) <0.1 (1,771) <0.1 (1,285) <0.1 (8) <0.1 (346)
Previous cardiac arrhythmia 2.6 (538,564) 2.9 (500,295) 0.3 (2,969) 2.6 (505,794) 3.9 (466,724) 0.3 (1,005) 3.1 (92,985)

aTwo years before 1 December 2020