UI Health Care helps lead national study confirming COVID 19 vaccine effectiveness
Release
09/29/21
Over 300 UI Health Care employees joined a large national study of health care workers that found that both FDA-authorized mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines (made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna) are highly effective at preventing symptomatic COVID-19 in real-world clinical settings.
In almost 5,000 participating health care workers from 33 medical centers, the effectiveness of thefull vaccination of two doses was shown to be 89% for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and 96% for the Moderna vaccine. The study period ran from December 2020 to May 2021.
The study, known as the PREVENT Project, was co-led by UI professors of emergency medicine Nick Mohr, and David Talan. The results were published recently in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Read more about the study at the link below.