Depletion-of-susceptibles Bias in Analyses of Intra-season Waning of Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness.

Ray, G Thomas; Lewis, Ned; Klein, Nicola P; Daley, Matthew F; Lipsitch, Marc; Fireman, Bruce · Clin Infect Dis · 2020

retrospective_cohort · Level III

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Abstract

Bias arises in studies of waning vaccine effectiveness when higher-risk individuals are depleted from the at-risk population at different rates between study groups. We examined how this bias arises and how to avoid it. A reanalysis of data from California confirmed a finding of intra-season waning of influenza vaccine effectiveness.

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