Study registration: *
Publication Puranik A, medRxiv, 2021
Dates: 2021-07-01 to 2021-07-30
Funding: No specific funding (No external funding was received for this study.)
Conflict of interest: Yes (AP, PJL, ES, MJN, JC, AJV, and VS are employees of nference and have financial interests in the company. nference is collaborating with Moderna, Pfizer, Janssen, and other bio-pharmaceutical companies on data science initiatives unrelated to this study. These collaborations had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. JCO receives personal fees from Elsevier and Bates College, and receives small grants from nference, Inc, outside the submitted work. ADB is supported by grants from NIAID (grants AI110173 and AI120698), Amfar (#109593), and Mayo Clinic (HH Shieck Khalifa Bib Zayed Al-Nahyan Named Professorship of Infectious Diseases). ADB is a paid consultant for Abbvie, Gilead, Freedom Tunnel, Pinetree therapeutics Primmune, Immunome and Flambeau Diagnostics, is a paid member of the DSMB for Corvus Pharmaceuticals, Equilium, and Excision Biotherapeutics, has received fees for speaking for Reach MD and Medscape, owns equity for scientific advisory work in Zentalis and nference, and is founder and President of Splissen Therapeutics. MDS received grant funding from Pfizer via Duke University for a vaccine side effect registry. JH, JCO, AV, MDS and ADB are employees of the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo Clinic may stand to gain financially from the successful outcome of the research. This research has been reviewed by the Mayo Clinic Conflict of Interest Review Board and is being conducted in compliance with Mayo Clinic Conflict of Interest policies.)
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Study design:Cohort Description of participants: Adults who underwent SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing in multiple centers in USA Inclusion criteria:
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Follow-up duration (months): 1 | |
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Variant name: Delta Evidence: Indirect evidence (prevalence of variant in the population: >50%) | |
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Protocol NR Statistical plan No Data-sharing stated:
Yes, after publication |
General comment | There is likely to be uncontrolled confounding, and we have a concern about selection bias because the analysis is restricted to individuals who had a PCR test, and this could be influenced by both vaccination and infection (sometimes referred to as collider bias). |