M. C. McEllistrem, C. Clancy, Deanna J. Buehrle, Aaron Lucas, B. Decker
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, 2021
Abstract In nursing home residents with asymptomatic COVID-19 diagnosed through twice-weekly surveillance testing, single dose BNT162b2 vaccination (Pfizer-BioNTech) was associated with -2.4 mean log10 lower nasopharyngeal viral load than detected in absence of vaccination (p=0.004). Since viral load is linked to transmission, single dose mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may help control outbreaks.
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Field of study: Medicine