Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines among children 6-11 years against hospitalization during Omicron predominance in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Jayaraj, Vivek Jason, Husin, Masliyana, Suah, Jing Lian, Tok, Peter Seah Keng, Omar, Azahadi, Rampal, Sanjay, Sivasampu, Sheamini
• Format: Article
• Published: Nature Research 2024
• Subjects: R Medicine (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/45466/; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55899-5

There is currently limited data on the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines for children aged 6-11 years in Malaysia. This study aims to determine vaccine effectiveness (VE) against COVID-19-related hospitalization after receipt of one- and two-doses of BNT162b2 mRNA (Comirnaty-Pfizer/BioNTech) vaccin...