Modelling approaches for estimating vaccine effectiveness of consecutive SARS-CoV-2 variant sublineages in the absence of study-specific genetic sequencing data, VEBIS hospital network, Europe, 2023/24
Both proposed approaches produced similar VE estimates to those from well-known methods. The VPM could also provide VE estimates when the validation techniques were limited by low sample size.
Authors
- Yinthe Dockx (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3992-1742)
- Verónica Gomez (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0485-0005)
- Liliana Antunes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-5304)
- Maria‐Louise Borg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8961-9413)
- Koen Magerman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8768-2961)
- Beatrix Oroszi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8915-0336)
- Aušra Džiugytė (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0486-8491)
- Monika Kuliešė (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4601-4585)
- Angela MC Rose (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2493-8082)
- Carolin Hackmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8788-3632)
- Ligita Jančorienė (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6488-6312)
- Margaret G. Fitzgerald (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4535-0966)
- Virginia Álvarez Río
- Róisín Duffy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7169-9109)
- Ralf Dürwald
- Madelyn Rojas-Castro
- Baltazar Nunes
- Iván Martínez-Baz
- Odette Popovici
- Olivier Núñez
- Jesús Castilla
- Raquel Guiomar
- Zvjezdana Lovrić Makarić
- Ausenda Machado
- Mihaela Lazăr
- Gergö Túri
- Goranka Petrović
Institutions
- Semmelweis University (HU)
- Lithuanian University of Health Sciences (LT)
- Vilnius University (LT)
- Robert Koch Institute (DE)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES)
- Health Service Executive (IE)
- Instituto de Salud Pública de Navarra (ES)
- Jessa Hospital (BE)
- Hrvatski zavod za javno zdravstvo (HR)
- Institutul Cantacuzino (RO)
- National Institute of Public Health (LA)
- Junta de Castilla y León (ES)
- Health Protection Surveillance Centre (IE)
- National Institute of Health Dr. Ricardo Jorge (PT)
- Sciensano (Belgium) (BE)
- Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (ES)
- Institut Scientifique de Santé Publique (BE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS ONE
- Published
- 2026-03-09
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0343988
- Primary Topic
- SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Queen Mary University of London
- Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Semmelweis Egyetem
- Universitair Ziekenhuis Gent
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- Lietuvos Sveikatos Mokslų Universitetas
- Robert Koch Institut
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office