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Editor, Senior Moderator
Emerg Infect Dis
. 2023 Mar 14;29(4).
doi: 10.3201/eid2904.221268. Online ahead of print.
Two-Year Cohort Study of SARS-CoV-2, Verona, Italy, 2020‒2022
Zeno Bisoffi, Nicoletta De Santis, Chiara Piubelli, Michela Deiana, Francesca Perandin, Pietro Girardi, Luca Heller, Natalia Alba, Carlo Pomari, Massimo Guerriero
Abstract
We performed a follow-up of a previously reported SARS-CoV-2 prevalence study (April‒May 2020) in Verona, Italy. Through May 2022, only <1.1% of the city population had never been infected or vaccinated; 8.8% was the officially reported percentage. Limiting protection measures and vaccination boosters to elderly and frail persons seems justified.
Keywords: COVID-19; Italy; SARS-CoV-2; Verona; cohort study; coronavirus disease; coronaviruses; cumulative incidence; elderly; frail persons; incidence; pandemic; prevalence; reported data; respiratory infections; sampling data; serologic testing; vaccine; viruses; zoonoses.
. 2023 Mar 14;29(4).
doi: 10.3201/eid2904.221268. Online ahead of print.
Two-Year Cohort Study of SARS-CoV-2, Verona, Italy, 2020‒2022
Zeno Bisoffi, Nicoletta De Santis, Chiara Piubelli, Michela Deiana, Francesca Perandin, Pietro Girardi, Luca Heller, Natalia Alba, Carlo Pomari, Massimo Guerriero
- PMID: 36918375
- DOI: 10.3201/eid2904.221268
Abstract
We performed a follow-up of a previously reported SARS-CoV-2 prevalence study (April‒May 2020) in Verona, Italy. Through May 2022, only <1.1% of the city population had never been infected or vaccinated; 8.8% was the officially reported percentage. Limiting protection measures and vaccination boosters to elderly and frail persons seems justified.
Keywords: COVID-19; Italy; SARS-CoV-2; Verona; cohort study; coronavirus disease; coronaviruses; cumulative incidence; elderly; frail persons; incidence; pandemic; prevalence; reported data; respiratory infections; sampling data; serologic testing; vaccine; viruses; zoonoses.