Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2021;76:e3250.
How many hospitalizations has the COVID-19 vaccination already prevented in São Paulo?
Rafael Izbicki
, Leonardo S. Bastos
, Meyer Izbicki
, Hedibert F. Lopes
, Tiago Mendonça dos Santos
DOI: 10.6061/clinics/2021/e3250
The high hospitalization rate of patients with coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has led to the collapse of healthcare systems in many countries. Vaccines for COVID-19 emerged in late 2020, and they have been shown to be a powerful tool to decrease hospitalization numbers in countries that were able to quickly vaccinate a majority of their populations ().
The goal of this study was to estimate how many COVID-19-related hospitalizations were prevented in the state of São Paulo (Brazil) because of vaccines as of May 28, 2021. We used data from the SIVEP-Gripe database, which was created by the Brazilian Ministry of Health in 2019 to record deaths and hospitalized cases with severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) (). The SIVEP-Gripe dataset is open-access and is updated weekly on the website: . We used the 14-day rolling average of the daily number of patients hospitalized for SARI because of COVID-19 (SARI-COVID).
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