COVID-19 outbreak in an elderly care home: very low vaccine effectiveness and late impact of booster vaccination campaign

CE van Ewijk, EI Hazelhorst, SJM Hahné, MJ Knol - Vaccine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Elderly people in long-term care facilities (LTCF) are at higher risk for (severe)
COVID-19, yet evidence of vaccine effectiveness (VE) in this population is scarce. In …

Impact of a COVID-19 outbreak in an elderly care home after primary vaccination

E Mauriz, JP Fernández-Vázquez, C Díez-Flecha… - Vaccines, 2023 - mdpi.com
Elderly care home residents are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 due to immune-
senescence, pre-existing medical conditions, and the risk of transmission from staff and …

High vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 infection and severe disease among residents and staff of long-term care facilities in Norway, November–June 2021

J Starrfelt, AS Danielsen, O Kacelnik, AW Børseth… - medRxiv, 2021 - medrxiv.org
COVID-19 has caused high morbidity and mortality in long-term care facilities (LTCFs)
worldwide. We estimated vaccine effectiveness (VE) among residents and health care …

First-dose coronavirus 2019 vaccination coverage among the residents of long-term care facilities in France

J Belmin, P Lutzler, P Hidoux, O Drunat… - Gerontology, 2022 - karger.com
Background: Long-term care facilities (LTCFs) experienced severe burden from the
Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), and vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 is a major issue for …

COVID-19 infection risk amongst 14,104 vaccinated care home residents: a national observational longitudinal cohort study in Wales, UK, December 2020–March …

J Hollinghurst, L North, M Perry, A Akbari… - Age and …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background vaccinations for COVID-19 have been prioritised for older people living in care
homes. However, vaccination trials included limited numbers of older people. Aim we aimed …

Change in COVID19 outbreak pattern following vaccination in long-term care facilities in Flanders, Belgium

J Crèvecoeur, N Hens, T Neyens, Y Larivière… - Vaccine, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Long term care facilities for elderly (LTCFs) in Europe encountered a high
disease burden at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, these facilities were the …

Effectiveness of successive booster vaccine doses against SARS-CoV-2 related mortality in residents of long-term care facilities in the VIVALDI study

O Stirrup, M Shrotri, NL Adams, M Krutikov… - Age and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) caused
severe disease in unvaccinated long-term care facility (LTCF) residents. Initial booster …

Long‐term effects of SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination in the nursing home setting

G Rivasi, M Bulgaresi, C Bandinelli… - Journal of the …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Background SARS‐CoV‐2 vaccination has significantly reduced infection, hospitalization,
and lethality rates among nursing home (NH) residents, but durability of vaccine effects …

COVID-19 outbreaks in nursing homes despite full vaccination with BNT162b2 of a majority of residents

C Lafuente-Lafuente, A Rainone, O Guérin, O Drunat… - Gerontology, 2022 - karger.com
Background: It is not known if widespread vaccination can prevent the spread of severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in subpopulations at high risk, like …

Epidemiology of COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care facilities during postvaccine period: a systematic review and meta-analysis

MR Hashan, N Smoll, G Chapman, C King, J Walker… - BMJ open, 2024 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objective We aimed to define the epidemiology of COVID-19 outbreaks in aged care
facilities (ACFs) during the postvaccine period, including vaccine effectiveness (VE) for this …