mRNA-based therapeutics: powerful and versatile tools to combat diseases

S Qin, X Tang, Y Chen, K Chen, N Fan… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
The therapeutic use of messenger RNA (mRNA) has fueled great hope to combat a wide
range of incurable diseases. Recent rapid advances in biotechnology and molecular …

Advances in COVID-19 mRNA vaccine development

E Fang, X Liu, M Li, Z Zhang, L Song, B Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
To date, the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has determined 399,600,607 cases and 5,757,562 …

Clinical severity of, and effectiveness of mRNA vaccines against, covid-19 from omicron, delta, and alpha SARS-CoV-2 variants in the United States: prospective …

AS Lauring, MW Tenforde, JD Chappell, M Gaglani… - bmj, 2022 - bmj.com
Objectives To characterize the clinical severity of covid-19 associated with the alpha, delta,
and omicron SARS-CoV-2 variants among adults admitted to hospital and to compare the …

Immunological memory to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection and COVID‐19 vaccines

A Sette, S Crotty - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Immunological memory is the basis of protective immunity provided by vaccines and
previous infections. Immunological memory can develop from multiple branches of the …

[HTML][HTML] Risk of infection, hospitalisation, and death up to 9 months after a second dose of COVID-19 vaccine: a retrospective, total population cohort study in Sweden

P Nordström, M Ballin, A Nordström - The Lancet, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Vaccine effectiveness against COVID-19 beyond 6 months remains
incompletely understood. We aimed to investigate the effectiveness of COVID-19 …

SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections in vaccinated individuals: measurement, causes and impact

M Lipsitch, F Krammer, G Regev-Yochay… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Breakthrough infections with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) in fully vaccinated individuals are receiving intense scrutiny because of their importance …

Estimated effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against Omicron or Delta symptomatic infection and severe outcomes

SA Buchan, H Chung, KA Brown, PC Austin… - JAMA network …, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, including among individuals who have
received 2 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, increased substantially following the emergence of …

Comparing COVID-19 vaccines for their characteristics, efficacy and effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 and variants of concern: a narrative review

T Fiolet, Y Kherabi, CJ MacDonald, J Ghosn… - Clinical Microbiology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Vaccines are critical cost-effective tools to control the coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID-19) pandemic. However, the emergence of variants of the severe acute respiratory …

Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines over a 9-month period in North Carolina

DY Lin, Y Gu, B Wheeler, H Young… - … England Journal of …, 2022 - Mass Medical Soc
Background The duration of protection afforded by coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19)
vaccines in the United States is unclear. Whether the increase in postvaccination infections …

SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021

BA Cohn, PM Cirillo, CC Murphy, NY Krigbaum… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We report severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccine
effectiveness against infection (VE-I) and death (VE-D) by vaccine type in 780,225 veterans …