Effectiveness of the adapted bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisation in individuals aged ≥ 60 years during the Omicron XBB lineage-predominant period: VEBIS SARI VE network, Europe, February to August, 2023

Liliana Antunes; Clara Mazagatos; Iván Martínez-Baz; Verónica Gomez; Maria-Louise Borg; Goranka Petrović; Róisín Duffy; François E Dufrasne; Ralf Dürrwald; Mihaela Lazar; Ligita Jancoriene; Beatrix Oroszi; Petr Husa; Jennifer Howard; Aryse Melo; Francisco Pozo; Gloria Pérez-Gimeno; Jesús Castilla; Ausenda Machado; Aušra Džiugytė; Svjetlana Karabuva; Margaret Fitzgerald; Sébastien Fierens; Kristin Tolksdorf; Silvia-Odette Popovici; Auksė Mickienė; Gergő Túri; Lenka Součková; Nathalie Nicolay; Angela MC Rose; on behalf of the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group

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Effectiveness of the adapted bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisation in individuals aged ≥ 60 years during the Omicron XBB lineage-predominant period: VEBIS SARI VE network, Europe, February to August, 2023
Liliana Antunes¹ , Clara Mazagatos^2,3 , Iván Martínez-Baz^4,5 , Verónica Gomez⁶ , Maria-Louise Borg⁷ , Goranka Petrović⁸ , Róisín Duffy⁹ , François E Dufrasne¹⁰ , Ralf Dürrwald¹¹ , Mihaela Lazar¹² , Ligita Jancoriene¹³ , Beatrix Oroszi¹⁴ , Petr Husa¹⁵ , Jennifer Howard¹ , Aryse Melo¹⁶ , Francisco Pozo¹⁷ , Gloria Pérez-Gimeno^2,3 , Jesús Castilla^4,5 , Ausenda Machado⁶ , Aušra Džiugytė⁷ , Svjetlana Karabuva¹⁸ , Margaret Fitzgerald⁹ , Sébastien Fierens¹⁹ , Kristin Tolksdorf²⁰ , Silvia-Odette Popovici²¹ , Auksė Mickienė²² , Gergő Túri¹⁴ , Lenka Součková¹⁵ , Nathalie Nicolay²³ , Angela MC Rose¹ , on behalf of the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group²⁴
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Affiliations: ¹ Epiconcept, Paris, France ² National Centre for Epidemiology, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ³ Consortium for Biomedical Research in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain ⁴ Instituto de Salud Pública de Navarra – IdiSNA, Pamplona, Spain ⁵ CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain ⁶ Epidemiology Department, National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal ⁷ Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit (IDCU), Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Msida, Malta ⁸ Croatian Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia ⁹ Health Service Executive-Health Protection Surveillance Centre (HPSC), Dublin, Ireland ¹⁰ National Influenza Centre Laboratory of Viral Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium ¹¹ National Reference Centre for Influenza, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ¹² Cantacuzino National Military-Medical Institute for Research and Development, Bucharest, Romania ¹³ Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Dermatovenerology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, Medical Faculty, Vilnius University, Lithuania ¹⁴ National Laboratory for Health Security, Epidemiology and Surveillance Centre, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary ¹⁵ University Hospital Brno, Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia ¹⁶ Infectious Diseases Department, National Health Institute Doutor Ricardo Jorge, Lisbon, Portugal ¹⁷ National Centre for Microbiology, Institute of Health Carlos III, Madrid, Spain ¹⁸ University Hospital Centre Split, Split, Croatia ¹⁹ Service Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases, Sciensano, Brussels, Belgium ²⁰ Department for Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany ²¹ National Institute of Public Health, National Centre for Communicable Diseases Surveillance and Control, Bucharest, Romania ²² Department of Infectious Diseases, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania ²³ European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), Stockholm, Sweden ²⁴ Members of the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group are listed under Acknowledgements

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Citation style for this article: Antunes Liliana, Mazagatos Clara, Martínez-Baz Iván, Gomez Verónica, Borg Maria-Louise, Petrović Goranka, Duffy Róisín, Dufrasne François E, Dürrwald Ralf, Lazar Mihaela, Jancoriene Ligita, Oroszi Beatrix, Husa Petr, Howard Jennifer, Melo Aryse, Pozo Francisco, Pérez-Gimeno Gloria, Castilla Jesús, Machado Ausenda, Džiugytė Aušra, Karabuva Svjetlana, Fitzgerald Margaret, Fierens Sébastien, Tolksdorf Kristin, Popovici Silvia-Odette, Mickienė Auksė, Túri Gergő, Součková Lenka, Nicolay Nathalie, Rose Angela MC, on behalf of the European Hospital Vaccine Effectiveness Group. Effectiveness of the adapted bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisation in individuals aged ≥ 60 years during the Omicron XBB lineage-predominant period: VEBIS SARI VE network, Europe, February to August, 2023. Euro Surveill. 2024;29(3):pii=2300708. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2024.29.3.2300708 Received: 15 Dec 2023; Accepted: 18 Jan 2024

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We conducted a multicentre hospital-based test-negative case–control study to measure the effectiveness of adapted bivalent COVID-19 mRNA vaccines against PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection during the Omicron XBB lineage-predominant period in patients aged ≥ 60 years with severe acute respiratory infection from five countries in Europe. Bivalent vaccines provided short-term additional protection compared with those vaccinated > 6 months before the campaign: from 80% (95% CI: 50 to 94) for 14–89 days post-vaccination, 15% (95% CI: −12 to 35) at 90–179 days, and lower to no effect thereafter.

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Effectiveness of the adapted bivalent mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against hospitalisation in individuals aged ≥ 60 years during the Omicron XBB lineage-predominant period: VEBIS SARI VE network, Europe, February to August, 2023

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