Study registration: *
Publication Hitchings M, Lancet Reg Health Am, 2021
Dates: 2021-01-19 to 2021-04-13
Funding: Public/non profit (Pan American Health Organization's support to the Fundação de Vigilância em Saúde from Amazonas State and the Municipal Health Secretary of Manaus in making the databases available for analysis. JC and AS are supported by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. OTR is funded by a Sara Borrell fellowship from the Instituto de Salud Carlos III. OTR acknowledges support from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation through the Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa 2019-2023 Program and from the Generalitat de Catalunya through the CERCA Program.)
Conflict of interest: no COI (We declare no competing interests.)
Methods | |
Study design:Test-negative Description of participants: All healthcare workers, including in hospitals, primary care, general, and specialized units Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion criteria:
Follow-up duration (months): 2.8 | |
Vaccines: |
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Variant description : |
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Variant name: Gamma Evidence: Indirect evidence (prevalence of variant in the population: 66) | |
Documents available |
Protocol Yes. In English Statistical plan Yes Data-sharing stated:
Yes |
General comment | Some concerns over uncontrolled confounding; in addition there are uncertainties over the possibility of selection bias in a test-negative design. |