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. 2023 Jan 5;13(1):8. doi: 10.1038/s41408-022-00778-3

Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

Characteristics (n = 1551)
Prior COVID-19, n (%) 129 (8.3)
• Median time from COVID-19 to vaccination, days (range) 203 (11–422)
Serological status prior to vaccination, n (%)
• Positive 64 (4)
• Negative 485 (31)
• Not tested 1002 (65)
Type of 1st and/or 2nd vaccine dose, n (%)
• Moderna mRNA-1273 1086 (70)
• Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 410 (26)
• Adenoviral vector-based 55 (4)
Type of 3rd vaccine, n (%) 1275 (82%)
• Moderna mRNA-1273 910 (71.3)
• Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 361 (28)
• Adenoviral vector-based 4 (0.7)
Age (years), median (range) 63 (16–97)
• 18–40 years, n (%) 167 (11)
• 41–60 years, n (%) 551 (35.5)
• 61–70 years, n (%) 407 (26)
• >71 years, n (%) 426 (27.5)
Male, n (%) 871 (56.2)
Baseline disease, n (%)
• AML 50 (3.2)
• ALL 5 (0.3)
• MDS 117 (7.5)
• B cell NHL 260 (16.8)
• T cell NHL 15 (1)
• Plasma cell disorders 164 (10.6)
• CLL 155 (10)
• HD 65 (4.2)
• cMPN 127 (8.2)
• Aplastic anemia 4 (0.3)
• Non-malignant disorders 17 (1)
• Allo-HSCT 429 (27.7)
• ASCT 121 (7.8)
• CAR-T 22 (1.4)
Status disease at vaccination, n (%)
• Complete remission 823 (59.3)
• Partial remission 179 (11.5)
• Active disease 453 (29.2)
Time last treatment to COVID-19 vaccine, months (range)
• Untreated 252 (16.2)
• Active treatment 441 (28.4)
• ≥6 months to 1 year 148 (9.5)
• ≥1 year 710 (45.8)
Immunosuppressant drugs at vaccination, n (%) 322 (20.8)
Corticosteroids at vaccination, n (%) 278 (17.9)
Daratumumab, n (%) 52 (3.4)
Venetoclax, n (%) 16 (1)
Anti-CD-20 moAb, n (%) 270 (17.4)
• <6 months before 1st vaccine dose 97 (6.3)
• 6 to 1 year before 1st vaccine dose 25 (1.6)
• >1 year before 1st vaccine dose 148 (9.5)
BTK inhibitor therapy, n (%) 67 (4.3)
TKI therapy, n (%) 49 (3.2)
Lenalidomide maintenance, n (%) 129 (8.3)
Ruxolitinib therapy, n (%) 15 (1)
Blood count before vaccination (×109/mL)
• Absolute neutrophile counts, median (range) 3.1 (0–46.7)
• Absolute lymphocyte counts, median (range) 1.73 (0.14–262.1)
• Absolute lymphocyte counts <1 × 109/L 288 (18.6)
Median time between 1st and 2nd vaccine doses, median days (range) 28 (17–115)
Time from 2nd dose to first serologies, median days (range) 21 (12–62)
Serological response at 3 weeks after 2 doses, n (%)
• Positive 1092 (70.4)
• negative 306 (19.7)
• Not available 153 (10)
Third vaccine dose given, n (%) 1284 (82.8)
Time from 2nd dose to 3rd dose, days (range) 168 (31–538)
Median follow-up after 3 doses, days (range) 189 (0–302)
Serological response after 3 doses, n (%)
• Positive 251 (19)
• negative 72 (5.6)
• Not available 961 (75)
Forth vaccine dose, n (%) 430 (27.7)
Time from 3rd dose to 4th dose, days (range) 159 (31–266)
Median follow-up after 4 doses, days (range) 12 (0–95)
SCoV2-R-A detection at 3–6 weeks after 2 vaccine doses, n/evaluable (%) 1090/1398 (78)
• Antibody titers in BAU/mL, n (%) 1250 (89)
SCoV2-R-A detection at 3 months after 2 vaccine doses, n (%) 922/1174 (78)
• Antibody titers in BAU/mL, n (%) 1070 (91)
SCoV2-R-A detection at 6 months after full vaccination, n (%) 842/1023 (82)
• Antibody titers in BAU/mL, n (%) 900 (88)
SCoV2-R-A detection at 1 year after full vaccination, n (%) 740/849 (87)
• Antibody titers in BAU/mL, n (%) 820 (97)
Breakthrough COVID-19, n (%) 266 (17)
Median time from 2 doses of vaccine to SARS-CoV-2 infection, days (range) 86 (7–391)
Median follow-up whole cohort, days (range) 388 (47–561)
All-cause mortality at median follow-up, n (%) 89 (5.7)

PCR polimerase chain reaction, AML acute myeloid leukemia, ALL acute lymphoblastic leukemia, MDS myelodysplastic syndrome, B-cell NHL B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, T cell NHL T cell non-hodgkin lymphoma, CLL chronic lymphocytic leukemia, HD Hodgkin disease, MPN chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm, Allo-HSCT allogeneic stem cell transplantation, ASCT autologous stem cell transplantation, CAR-T T-cell chimeric antigen receptor, moAb monoclonal antibody, BTK inhibitor Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, TKIs tyrosine kinase inhibitors, SCoV2-R-A SARS-CoV-2-reactive IgG antibodies.