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Association between vaccination with Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2, incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infections among health care workers

2021-05-06
(Press-News.org) What The Study Did: This study estimates the association between Pfizer-BioNTech BNT162b2 vaccination and symptomatic and asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections among health care workers more than seven days after getting a second vaccine dose.

Authors: Ronen Ben-Ami, M.D., of the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center in Israel, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jama.2021.7152)

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