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Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and booster on COVID-19 symptom severity over time in the COVID-OUT trial

Overview of attention for article published in Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 2022
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Title
Impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination and booster on COVID-19 symptom severity over time in the COVID-OUT trial
Published in
Clinical Infectious Diseases, September 2022
DOI 10.1093/cid/ciac772
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Authors

David R Boulware, Thomas A Murray, Jennifer L Proper, Christopher J Tignanelli, John B Buse, David M Liebovitz, Jacinda M Nicklas, Kenneth Cohen, Michael A Puskarich, Hrishikesh K Belani, Lianne K Siegel, Nichole R Klatt, David J Odde, Amy B Karger, Nicholas E Ingraham, Katrina M Hartman, Via Rao, Aubrey A Hagen, Barkha Patel, Sarah L Fenno, Nandini Avula, Neha V Reddy, Spencer M Erickson, Sarah Lindberg, Regina Fricton, Samuel Lee, Adnin Zaman, Hanna G Saveraid, Walker J Tordsen, Matthew F Pullen, Nancy E Sherwood, Jared D Huling, Carolyn T Bramante, for the COVID-OUT study team

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 vaccination has decreasing protection from acquiring any infection with emergence of new variants; however, vaccination continues to protect against progression to severe COVID-19. The impact of vaccination status on symptoms over time is less clear. Within a randomized trial on early outpatient COVID-19 therapy testing metformin, ivermectin, and/or fluvoxamine, participants recorded symptoms daily for 14 days. Participants were given a paper symptom diary allowing them to circle the severity of 14 symptoms as none (0), mild (1), moderate (2), or severe (3). This is a secondary analysis of clinical trial data on symptom severity over time using generalized estimating equations comparing those unvaccinated, SARS-CoV-2 vaccinated with primary vaccine series only, or vaccine-boosted. The parent clinical trial prospectively enrolled 1323 participants, of whom 1062 (80%) prospectively recorded some daily symptom data. Of these, 480 (45%) were unvaccinated, 530 (50%) were vaccinated with primary series only, and 52 (5%) vaccine-boosted. Overall symptom severity was least for the vaccine-boosted group and most severe for unvaccinated at baseline and over the 14 days (P < 0.001). Individual symptoms were least severe in the vaccine-boosted group including: cough, chills, fever, nausea, fatigue, myalgia, headache, and diarrhea, as well as smell and taste abnormalities. Results were consistent over delta and omicron variant time periods. SARS-CoV-2 vaccine-boosted participants had the least severe symptoms during COVID-19 which abated the quickest over time.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 23 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 13%
Student > Bachelor 2 9%
Student > Postgraduate 2 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 9%
Unspecified 1 4%
Other 2 9%
Unknown 11 48%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 4 17%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 9%
Unspecified 1 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 4%
Psychology 1 4%
Other 1 4%
Unknown 13 57%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 633. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 December 2023.
All research outputs
#35,585
of 25,791,949 outputs
Outputs from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#111
of 16,972 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,128
of 436,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Clinical Infectious Diseases
#5
of 215 outputs
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