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Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries
Since December 2020 vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been available. However, little is known regarding their effects on infections and on hospitalizations. To gain insight into this topic we empirically analyze the effects of the vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 for European countries begi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9911336/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36789112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43546-023-00445-0 |
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description | Since December 2020 vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been available. However, little is known regarding their effects on infections and on hospitalizations. To gain insight into this topic we empirically analyze the effects of the vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 for European countries beginning 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline estimations. We find a statistically significant and positive relationship between the share of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the share of vaccinated people in nine estimations while one estimation output was insignificant. Regarding hospitalizations, six out of ten estimations yielded a statistically insignificant relationship, and three estimation results were weakly statistically significant with a negative coefficient and one indicated a statistically significant negative relation. Hence, there is empirical evidence for a positive relationship between infections and the share of vaccinated people whereas we find weak empirical evidence for a negative relation between vaccinations and hospitalizations. The implication of our analysis is that vaccinations alone cannot end the pandemic. Rather developing effective medicines should be seen as an additional measure. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43546-023-00445-0. |
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spelling | pubmed-99113362023-02-10 Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries Greiner, Alfred Owusu, Benjamin SN Bus Econ Original Article Since December 2020 vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been available. However, little is known regarding their effects on infections and on hospitalizations. To gain insight into this topic we empirically analyze the effects of the vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 for European countries beginning 2021 to February 2022 with weekly data. We perform panel fixed effects estimations, GMM estimations and nonlinear penalized spline estimations. We find a statistically significant and positive relationship between the share of infections with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the share of vaccinated people in nine estimations while one estimation output was insignificant. Regarding hospitalizations, six out of ten estimations yielded a statistically insignificant relationship, and three estimation results were weakly statistically significant with a negative coefficient and one indicated a statistically significant negative relation. Hence, there is empirical evidence for a positive relationship between infections and the share of vaccinated people whereas we find weak empirical evidence for a negative relation between vaccinations and hospitalizations. The implication of our analysis is that vaccinations alone cannot end the pandemic. Rather developing effective medicines should be seen as an additional measure. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s43546-023-00445-0. Springer International Publishing 2023-02-10 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9911336/ /pubmed/36789112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43546-023-00445-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Original Article Greiner, Alfred Owusu, Benjamin Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title | Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title_full | Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title_fullStr | Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title_full_unstemmed | Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title_short | Effects of the vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in European countries |
title_sort | effects of the vaccination against sars-cov-2 on infections and on hospitalizations in european countries |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9911336/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36789112 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43546-023-00445-0 |
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