COVID-19 infections among health care workers before, after vaccination

What The Study Did:

A

decline in COVID-19 cases


after the vaccination of health care workers in a region of California that experienced high rates of COVID-19 disease


over the winter is reported in this single-center study.

Authors:


Shruti K. Gohil, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, is the

corresponding author.

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