Association Between COVID-19 Booster Vaccination and Omicron Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Cohort of Players and Staff in the National Basketball Association

Caroline G Tai; Lisa L Maragakis; Sarah Connolly; John DiFiori; Deverick J Anderson; Yonatan H Grad; Christina DeFilippo Mack

doi:10.1001/jama.2022.9479

Association Between COVID-19 Booster Vaccination and Omicron Infection in a Highly Vaccinated Cohort of Players and Staff in the National Basketball Association

JAMA. 2022 Jul 12;328(2):209-211. doi: 10.1001/jama.2022.9479.

Authors

Caroline G Tai¹, Lisa L Maragakis², Sarah Connolly¹, John DiFiori³, Deverick J Anderson⁴, Yonatan H Grad⁵, Christina DeFilippo Mack¹

Affiliations

¹ IQVIA, Durham, North Carolina.
² Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
³ National Basketball Association, New York, New York.
⁴ Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This study compares the incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in players and staff of the National Basketball Association (NBA) who did vs those who did not receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.

MeSH terms

Athletes / statistics & numerical data
Basketball* / statistics & numerical data
COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
COVID-19* / virology
Cohort Studies
Humans
Immunization, Secondary* / statistics & numerical data
SARS-CoV-2*
United States / epidemiology
Vaccination / statistics & numerical data

Supplementary concepts

SARS-CoV-2 variants