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Editor, Senior Moderator
BMJ Evid Based Med
. 2020 Dec 11;bmjebm-2020-111549.
doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111549. Online ahead of print.
Inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination is associated with lower mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Brazil
G?nther Fink[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Nina Orlova-Fink[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Tobias Schindler[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Sandra Grisi[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ana Paula S Ferrer[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Claudia Daubenberger[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Alexandra Brentani[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Objective: To estimate associations between trivalent influenza vaccination and COVID-19 mortality as well as severe clinical outcomes among hospitalised patients.
Design: Retrospective observational study.
Setting: This study was conducted among hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in Brazil.
Participants: We analysed all hospitalised patients with COVID-19 with available vaccination information captured in Brazil's national electronic respiratory infection data system between 1 January 2020 and 23 June 2020.
Main outcome measures: The primary outcomes were age-specific mortality rates of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 with and without recent inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination.
Results: A total of 53 752 clinically confirmed COVID-19 cases were analysed. Controlling for health facility of treatment, comorbidities as well as an extensive range of sociodemographic factors, patients who received a recent influenza vaccine experienced on average 7% lower odds of needing intensive care treatment (95% CI 0.87 to 0.98), 17% lower odds of requiring invasive respiratory support (95% CI 0.77 to 0.88) and 16% lower odds of death (95% CI 0.78 to 0.90). Protective effects were larger when the vaccine was administered after onset of symptoms as well as among younger patients.
Conclusion: Patients with COVID-19 with recent inactivated influenza vaccination experience significantly better health outcomes than non-vaccinated patients in Brazil. Beneficial off-target effects of influenza vaccination through trained innate immune responses seem plausible and need to be further explored. Large-scale promotion of influenza vaccines seems advisable, especially in populations at high risk for severe COVID-19 disease progression.
Keywords: immunisation; infectious disease medicine.
. 2020 Dec 11;bmjebm-2020-111549.
doi: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111549. Online ahead of print.
Inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination is associated with lower mortality among patients with COVID-19 in Brazil
G?nther Fink[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Nina Orlova-Fink[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Tobias Schindler[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Sandra Grisi[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Ana Paula S Ferrer[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Claudia Daubenberger[SUP] 3 2 [/SUP], Alexandra Brentani[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33310766
- DOI: 10.1136/bmjebm-2020-111549
Abstract
Objective: To estimate associations between trivalent influenza vaccination and COVID-19 mortality as well as severe clinical outcomes among hospitalised patients.
Design: Retrospective observational study.
Setting: This study was conducted among hospitalised patients with COVID-19 in Brazil.
Participants: We analysed all hospitalised patients with COVID-19 with available vaccination information captured in Brazil's national electronic respiratory infection data system between 1 January 2020 and 23 June 2020.
Main outcome measures: The primary outcomes were age-specific mortality rates of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 with and without recent inactivated trivalent influenza vaccination.
Results: A total of 53 752 clinically confirmed COVID-19 cases were analysed. Controlling for health facility of treatment, comorbidities as well as an extensive range of sociodemographic factors, patients who received a recent influenza vaccine experienced on average 7% lower odds of needing intensive care treatment (95% CI 0.87 to 0.98), 17% lower odds of requiring invasive respiratory support (95% CI 0.77 to 0.88) and 16% lower odds of death (95% CI 0.78 to 0.90). Protective effects were larger when the vaccine was administered after onset of symptoms as well as among younger patients.
Conclusion: Patients with COVID-19 with recent inactivated influenza vaccination experience significantly better health outcomes than non-vaccinated patients in Brazil. Beneficial off-target effects of influenza vaccination through trained innate immune responses seem plausible and need to be further explored. Large-scale promotion of influenza vaccines seems advisable, especially in populations at high risk for severe COVID-19 disease progression.
Keywords: immunisation; infectious disease medicine.