The Effect of Priority Access of Dentists to COVID-19 Vaccination in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11150%2F22%3A10446598" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11150/22:10446598 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00179906:_____/22:10446598 RIV/00216224:14110/22:00127156

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=BS7OUgEXmL" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=BS7OUgEXmL</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/vaccines10081252" target="_blank" >10.3390/vaccines10081252</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Effect of Priority Access of Dentists to COVID-19 Vaccination in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The lack of vaccines in the first half of 2021 led to the need to prioritize access to vaccination. This approach has been associated with a number of issues, including ethics and effectiveness. However, analyses providing data on this topic are scarce. This work describes the effect of a priority approach to vaccination on the different development of the pandemic between Czech dentists and the Czech general population. The dentist-related data were obtained from survey studies published in 2021 and 2022, and the Czech general population data were mined from the Our World in Data online database. The analysis shows that until the beginning of vaccination, i.e., in December 2020, the prevalence of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection among dentists was higher than in the general population by 22.5% (8.65% vs. 6.70%). This trend was reversed already in the first month after the start of vaccination, and the difference increased every month. Finally, in June 2021, priority vaccination statistically significantly (p &lt; 0.0001) reduced the resulting prevalence among dentists (12.67%) compared to the general population (15.55%), which is a difference of 18.5%. This represents a prevalence shift between the populations by 40% during 6 months of priority vaccination. The results support the conclusion that the priority vaccination of healthcare workers was not only ethical but also rational and effective.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30208 - Dentistry, oral surgery and medicine

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Vaccines

ISSN

2076-393X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

10

Issue of the periodical within the volume

8

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1252

UT code for WoS article

000845258900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85137407720