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Eur J Epidemiol.<\/span><\/a><\/span> 2021 Sep 30 : 1\u20134.<\/span><\/div>\n
doi:\u00a010.1007\/s10654-021-00808-7<\/a><\/span> [Epub ahead of print]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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PMCID: <\/span>PMC8481107<\/div>\n
PMID: 34591202<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States<\/h1>\n
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S. V. Subramanian<\/a>\"corresponding<\/sup>1,<\/sup>2<\/sup> and Akhil Kumar<\/a>3<\/sup><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Vaccines currently are the primary mitigation strategy to combat COVID-19 around the world. For instance, the narrative related to the ongoing surge of new cases in the United States (US) is argued to be driven by areas with low vaccination rates [1<\/a>]. A\u00a0similar narrative also has been observed in countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom [2<\/a>]. At the same time, Israel that was hailed for its swift and high rates of vaccination has also seen a substantial resurgence in COVID-19 cases [3<\/a>]. We investigate the relationship between the percentage of population\u00a0 fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases across 68 countries and across 2947 counties in\u00a0the US.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We used COVID-19 data provided by the Our World in Data for cross-country analysis, available as of September 3, 2021 (Supplementary Table 1) [4<\/a>]. We included 68 countries that met the following criteria: had second dose vaccine data available; had COVID-19 case data available; had population data available; and the last update of data was within 3\u00a0days prior to or on September 3, 2021. For the 7\u00a0days preceding September 3, 2021 we computed the COVID-19 cases per 1 million people for each country as well as the percentage of population that is fully vaccinated.<\/p>\n

For the county-level analysis in the US, we utilized the White House COVID-19 Team data [5<\/a>], available as of September 2, 2021 (Supplementary Table 2). We excluded counties that did not report fully vaccinated population percentage data yielding 2947 counties for the analysis. We computed the number and percentages of counties that experienced an increase in COVID-19 cases by levels of the percentage of people fully vaccinated in each county. The percentage increase in COVID-19 cases was calculated based on the difference in cases from the last 7\u00a0days and the 7\u00a0days preceding them. For example, Los Angeles county in California had 18,171 cases in the last 7\u00a0days (August 26 to September 1) and 31,616 cases in the previous 7\u00a0days (August 19\u201325), so this county did not experience an increase of cases in our dataset. We provide a dashboard of the metrics used in this analysis that is updated automatically as new data is made available by the White House COVID-19 Team (https:\/\/tiny.cc\/USDashboard<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of\u00a0population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases in the last 7\u00a0days (Fig.\u00a01<\/a>). In fact, the trend line suggests a marginally positive association such that countries with higher percentage of\u00a0population fully vaccinated have higher COVID-19 cases per 1 million people. Notably, Israel with over 60% of their population fully vaccinated had the highest COVID-19 cases per 1 million people in the last 7\u00a0days. The lack of a meaningful association between percentage population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases is further exemplified, for instance, by comparison of Iceland and Portugal. Both countries have over 75% of their population fully vaccinated and have more COVID-19 cases per 1 million people than countries such as Vietnam and South Africa that have around 10% of their population fully vaccinated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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