How effective are the 新型冠状病毒肺炎 vaccines?

挑战

With millions of cases of infections and hundreds of thousands of deaths in the U.S. 独自一人, the public health burden of 新型冠状病毒肺炎 has been significant, impacting both lives and livelihoods. Understanding of the specific signs and symptoms, 严重的结果, and associated medical complications of 新型冠状病毒肺炎 is still evolving.

Numerous knowledge gaps still exist regarding how 新型冠状病毒肺炎 and, 特别是, severe manifestations of the disease impact different sociodemographic and high-risk groups. The recent availability of the much-needed vaccines is very promising. 但, how effective are these vaccines on the population at large, and what type of 疾病 will they prevent?

hg体育官网 is supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in this research.

解决方案

hg体育官网 has engaged 7 large health systems across the country to use a common protocol and rapidly contribute bi-weekly data from electronic health records (EHRs) and pharmacy outpatient and inpatient records related to 新型冠状病毒肺炎 testing, 接种疫苗, 疾病, 还有严重的后果.

使用亚马逊网络服务(AWS), we are capturing and harmonizing data in a central database and have instituted procedures for quality assurance and control.

Our statisticians will assist CDC with analyses by comparing groups of people who do and do not get vaccinated and people who do and do not get 新型冠状病毒肺炎 to assess how well 新型冠状病毒肺炎 vaccines are working to protect people.

结果

结果 from 新型冠状病毒肺炎 vaccine effectiveness analyses will help CDC learn more about vaccine effectiveness among different populations and over time. 结果 will further illuminate signs and symptoms associated with 新型冠状病毒肺炎 疾病; who is receiving each vaccine (by age, 比赛, 种族, underlying medical conditions); and how different groups respond to the vaccine.

These results will help inform CDC’s recommendations about how people can protect themselves from 新型冠状病毒肺炎.