TY - JOUR AU - Vasileiou, Eleftheria AU - Simpson, Colin R. AU - Shi, Ting AU - Kerr, Steven AU - Agrawal, Utkarsh AU - Akbari, Ashley AU - Bedston, Stuart AU - Beggs, Jillian AU - Bradley, Declan T. AU - Chuter, Antony AU - de Lusignan, Simon AU - Docherty, Annemarie B. AU - Ford, David V. AU - Hobbs, F.D. Richard AU - Joy, Mark AU - Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal AU - Marple, James AU - McCowan, Colin AU - McGagh, Dylan AU - Jim McMenamin AU - Moore, Emily AU - Murray, Josephine-Louise K. AU - Pan, Jiafeng AU - Ritchie, Lewis AU - Shah, Syed Ahmar AU - Stock, Sarah J. AU - Torabi, Fatemeh AU - Tsang, Ruby S.M. AU - Wood, Rachael AU - Woolhouse, Mark AU - Robertson, Chris AU - Sheikh, Aziz PY - 2021 DA - April TI - Interim findings from first-dose mass COVID-19 vaccination roll-out and COVID-19 hospital admissions in Scotland: a national prospective cohort study JO - The Lancet EP - 1657 VL - 397 IS - 10285 DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00677-2 AB - The BNT162b2 mRNA (Pfizer–BioNTech) and ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 (Oxford–AstraZeneca) COVID-19 vaccines have shown high efficacy against disease in phase 3 clinical trials and are now being used in national vaccination programmes in the UK and several other countries. Studying the real-world effects of these vaccines is an urgent requirement. The aim of our study was to investigate the association between the mass roll-out of the first doses of these COVID-19 vaccines and hospital admissions for COVID-19. PB - Elsevier UR - https://publichealthscotland.scot/id/24763 KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19) KW - Immunisation and screening KW - Hospital care ER