COVID-19 booster vaccination uptake and infection breakthrough amongst health care workers in Wales: A national prospective cohort study

• DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2023.01.023
• Publication Date: 2023-01-13T09:03:10Z
• Authors: Stuart Bedston; Emily Lowthian; Christopher I. Ja...; Ashley Akbari; Jillian Beggs; Declan Bradley; Simon de Lusignan; Rowena Griffiths; Laura Herbert; Richard Hobbs; Steven Kerr; Jane Lyons; William Midgley; Rhiannon K. Owen; Jennifer K. Quint; Ruby Tsang; Fatemeh Torabi; Aziz Sheikh; Ronan A. Lyons
• Keywords: Booster dose; Vaccination schedule; Booster (rocketry)

From September 2021, Health Care Workers (HCWs) in Wales began receiving a COVID-19 booster vaccination. This is the first dose beyond primary vaccination schedule. Given emergence of new variants, vaccine waning vaccine, and increasing hesitancy, there need to understand uptake subsequent breakthrough this high-risk population.