[HTML][HTML] A Critical Analysis of All-Cause Deaths during COVID-19 Vaccination in an Italian Province

M Alessandria, GM Malatesta, F Berrino, A Donzelli - Microorganisms, 2024 - mdpi.com
Immortal time bias (ITB) is common in cohort studies and distorts the association estimates
between the treated and untreated. We used data from an Italian study on COVID-19 …

Comprehensive statistical analysis reveals significant benefits of COVID-19 vaccination in hospitalized patients: propensity score, covariate adjustment, and feature …

EV de Moraes, MC Pires, AAA Costa, AGS Nunes… - BMC Infectious …, 2024 - Springer
Background COVID-19 vaccines effectively prevent infection and hospitalization. However,
few population-based studies have compared the clinical characteristics and outcomes of …

Preparing for pandemics needs a dose of public health and a booster of “complex thought”(Errare humanum est, perseverare diabolicum)

E Paul, GW Brown, D Bell, V Ridde… - Global Policy, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The COVID‐19 pandemic has triggered unprecedented governmental responses worldwide,
revealing weaknesses in health systems and public health policies due to lack of “complex …

Assessing Healthy Vaccinee Effect in COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Studies: A National Cohort Study in Qatar

H Chemaitelly, HH Ayoub, P Coyle, P Tang, MR Hasan… - medRxiv, 2024 - medrxiv.org
Background This study investigated the presence of the healthy vaccinee effect—the
imbalance in health status between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals—in two …

Protection from prior natural infection vs. vaccination against SARS-CoV-2—a statistical note to avoid biased interpretation

S Weber, P Hedberg, P Naucler, M Wolkewitz - Frontiers in Medicine, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction The fight against SARS-CoV-2 has been a major task worldwide since it was
first identified in December 2019. An imperative preventive measure is the availability of …

All-cause mortality according to COVID-19 vaccination status: An analysis of the UK office for National statistics public data

M Alessandria, G Malatesta, G Di Palmo… - …, 2024 - f1000research.com
Background The mass vaccination campaign against COVID-19 has been commonly
considered the best response to the global COVID-19 pandemic crisis. However, to assess …

No evidence of a “healthy vaccinee effect” in COVID-19 vaccination data from the Czech Republic

M Šmíd, V Tuček, R Madar, R Tachezy… - International Journal of …, 2024 - ijidonline.com
Journal Pre-proof Page 1 Journal Pre-proof No evidence of a “healthy vaccinee effect” in
COVID-19 vaccination data from the Czech Republic Martin ˇSmıd , Vıt Tucek , Rastislav …

The Failed History of Quarantines, and Its Implications for Public Health

S Sabhlok, P Frijters, G Foster, J Bhattacharya… - 2024 - econstor.eu
This paper reviews the history of the practice of quarantines, rediscovering the 19th
century'Sanitarian'movement in Britain that sprang from a recognition that quarantines had …

A Reanalysis of an Italian Study on the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccination Suggests That It Might Have Unintended Effects on Total Mortality

M Alessandria, G Malatesta, F Berrino, A Donzelli - 2024 - preprints.org
Immortal-time bias (ITB) is known to be common in cohort studies and distorts the
association estimates between treated and untreated groups. We used data from the last of …

Estimates of SARS-CoV-2 Infections and Population Immunity after the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria: Analysis of National Wastewater Data

U Riedmann, A Chalupka, L Richter… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Background: Post-pandemic surveillance data on COVID-19 infections may help inform
future public health policies regarding SARS-CoV-2 testing, vaccinations or other COVID-19 …