Estimates of protection levels against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe COVID-19 in Germany before the 2022/2023 winter season: the IMMUNEBRIDGE project

Berit Lange, Veronika K. Jaeger, Manuela Harries, Viktoria Rücker, Hendrik Streeck, Sabine Blaschke, Astrid Petersmann, Nicole Toepfner, Matthias Nauck, Max J. Hassenstein, Maren Dreier, Isabell von Holt, Axel Budde, Antonia Bartz, Julia Ortmann, Marc-André Kurosinski, Reinhard Berner, Max Borsche, Gunnar Brandhorst, Melanie Brinkmann, Kathrin Budde, Marek Deckena, Geraldine Engels, Marc Fenzlaff, Christoph Härtel, Olga Hovardovska, Alexander Katalinic, Katja Kehl, Mirjam Kohls, Stefan Krüger, Wolfgang Lieb, Kristin M. Meyer-Schlinkmann, Tobias Pischon, Daniel Rosenkranz, Nicole Rübsamen, Jan Rupp, Christian Schäfer, Mario Schattschneider, Anne Schlegtendal, Simon Schlinkert, Lena Schmidbauer, Kai Schulze-Wundling, Stefan Störk, Carsten Tiemann, Henry Völzke, Theresa Winter, Christine Klein, Johannes Liese, Folke Brinkmann, Patrick F. Ottensmeyer, Jens-Peter Reese, Peter Heuschmann, Andre Karch

August, 2023

Abstract

Despite the need to generate valid and reliable estimates of protection levels against SARS-CoV-2 infection and severe course of COVID-19 for the German population in summer 2022, there was a lack of systematically collected population-based data allowing for the assessment of the protection level in real time.

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Journal article

Publication

Infection