News-Medical.Net August 4, 2024
A recent Nature Communications study assesses the impact of different coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine doses on cardiovascular safety in millions of adults in England.
Understanding the safety of COVID-19 vaccines
The COVID-19 pandemic was caused by the rapid transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). To date, SARS-CoV-2 has infected over 700 million individuals worldwide and caused over seven million deaths.
Unprecedented and coordinated efforts between governments and the scientific community led to the development of several vaccines, estimated to have prevented about 14.4 million deaths worldwide in the first year of the pandemic. By autumn 2023, about 90% of the population in England 12 years of age and older received at least one COVID-19 vaccine...