Study registration: *
Publication Self WH, MMWR, 2021
Dates: 2021-03-11 to 2021-08-15
Funding: Mixed (Wesley H. Self reports grants and consultant fees from Merck and consultant fees from Aerpio
Pharmaceuticals. Adit A. Ginde reports grant support from AbbVie
and Faron Pharmaceuticals. Jonathan D. Casey reports a grant
(N23HL153584) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
D. Clark Files reports consultant fees from Cytovale and membership
on a Medpace Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB). David N.
Hager reports salary support from Incyte Corporation, EMPACT
Precision Medicine, and the Marcus Foundation. Michelle N. Gong
reports grant support from NIH and the Agency for Healthcare
Research and Quality (AHRQ) and fees for participating on a DSMB
for Regeneron and for participating on a scientific advisory panel
for Philips Healthcare. Daniel J. Henning reports consulting fees from Cytovale and Opticyte. Ithan D. Peltan reports grants from
NIH and Janssen Pharmaceuticals, institutional fees from Asahi
Kasei Pharma and from Regeneron. Samuel M. Brown reports fees
from Hamilton for chairing a DSMB, and institutional fees from
Faron, Sedana, and Janssen; grants from Sedana, Janssen, NIH, and
the Department of Defense (DoD); book royalties from OxfordUniversity and Brigham Young University; and personal fees from
New York University for service on a DSMB. Emily T. Martin
reports personal fees from Pfizer for unrelated work and a grant
from Merck for unrelated work. Akram Khan reports grants from
United Therapeutics, Johnson & Johnson, 4D Medical, Lung LLC,
and Reata Pharmaceuticals. Arnold S. Monto reports consulting fees
from Sanofi-Pasteur and Seqirus. Steven Y. Chang was a speaker for
La Jolla Pharmaceuticals and a Consultant for PureTech Health.
Jennie H. Kwon reports grant support from NIH. Matthew C.
Exline reports talks on nutrition in COVID pneumonia at APEN
conference sponsored by Abbott Labs. Natasha Halasa reports grants
from Sanofi and Quidel. James D. Chappell reports a grant from the
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH. Adam S.
Lauring reports consultant fees from Sanofi and fees from Roche
for membership on a trial steering committee. Carlos G. Grijalva
reports consultant fees from Pfizer, Merck, and Sanofi-Pasteur and
grants from Campbell Alliance/Syneos Health, NIH, the Food and
Drug Administration, AHRQ, and Sanofi. Todd W. Rice reports
personal fees from Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc., as the Director
of Medical Affairs, consultant fees from Avisa Pharma, LLC; and
DSMB membership fees from Sanofi. Christopher J. Lindsell reports
grants from NIH, DoD, and the Marcus Foundation; organizational
contract fees from bioMerieux, Endpoint LLC, and Entegrion, Inc.;
and a patent issued to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
for risk stratification in sepsis and septic shock. No other potential
conflicts of interest were disclosed)
Conflict of interest: Yes (Wesley H. Self reports grants and
consultant fees from Merck and consultant fees from Aerpio
Pharmaceuticals.
No other potential
conflicts of interest were disclosed)
Methods | |
Study design:Test-negative Description of participants: Adults hospitalized with COVID-19 like illness without Immunocompromising conditions living in United States, Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria:
Follow-up duration (months): 5 | |
Vaccines: |
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Variant description : |
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Variant name: Delta Evidence: Indirect evidence (prevalence of variant in the population: *) | |
Documents available |
Protocol NR Statistical plan NR Data-sharing stated:
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General comment | Concerns about uncontrolled confounding (comorbidities were unbalanced between vaccination groups); in addition, there are uncertainties over the possibility of selection bias in a test-negative design and in relation to the missing data. |