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Volume 30, Number 7—July 2024
Dispatch

Vaccine Effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 among Household Contacts during Omicron BA.2–Dominant Period, Japan

Tsuyoshi OgataComments to Author , Hideo Tanaka, Akemi Kon, Noriko Sakaibori, and Emiko Tanaka
Author affiliations: Itako Public Health Center of Ibaraki Prefectural Government, Itako, Japan (T. Ogata, A. Kon, N. Sakaibori, E. Tanaka); Public Health Center of Neyagawa City, Neyagawa, Osaka, Japan (H. Tanaka)

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Table 1

Attack rates among household contacts of index patients with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron BA.2 infection in study of vaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 among household contacts during Omicron BA.2–dominant period, Japan*

Variables No. household contacts, n = 952 Infected contacts, n = 395 Contact attack rate, % Risk ratio (95% CI)†
Household contacts
No. vaccination doses
0–1 399 198 49.6 Referent
2 246 102 41.5 0.84 (0.70–0.999)
3 307 95 30.9 0.62 (0.51–0.76)
Recent vaccination
N 637 293 46.0 Referent
Y
315
102
32.4
0.70 (0.59–0.84)
Index patients
No. vaccination doses
0–1 515 238 46.2 Referent
2 301 112 37.2 0.81 (0.68–0.96)
3 136 45 33.1 0.72 (0.55–0.93)
Recent vaccination‡
N 802 343 42.8 Referent
Y 150 52 34.7 0.81 (0.64–1.01)

*Attack rates are stratified by vaccination doses or recent vaccination for household contacts or index patients. †Monovariate analyses. ‡Recent vaccination indicates last vaccine dose <3 months.

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