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Although there have been expansion of knowledge about the course of COVID-19 in rheumatologic diseases, it still remains unclear the effect of vaccination status and variants on the disease course.

We aimed to investigate the general clinical characteristics of our patients with inflammatory rheumatic disease (IRD) who had COVID-19 disease, their vaccination status and the time periods in which different variants were dominant during the disease.

During the routine follow-up of our patient’s with IRD, whether the patients had COVID-19 disease, when they were vaccinated (Pfizer/Biontech or Sinovac in our Country) and main clinical characteristics and their comorbid diseases were recorded. The last patient was included in the study on January 25, 2022.

They were divided into those who received insufficient or no vaccine and those who received a full dose of vaccine. The patients …