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ReviewVaccines2022

COVID-19 Vaccine: Between Myth and Truth.

Pier Paolo Piccaluga, Antonio Di Guardo, Anna Lagni, Virginia Lotti, Erica Diani, Mohsen Navari, Davide Gibellini

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In one paragraph

Review in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
15citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Immunogenicity and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines in people living with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Pier Paolo PiccalugaDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", University of Bologna School of Medicine, 40126 Bologna, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9432-0595
Antonio Di GuardoDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic, and Specialty Medicine, Institute of Hematology and Medical Oncology "L. and A. Seràgnoli", University of Bologna School of Medicine, 40126 Bologna, Italy.
Anna LagniDepartment of Diagnostic and Public Health, Verona University, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Virginia LottiDepartment of Diagnostic and Public Health, Verona University, 37134 Verona, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5746-3810
Erica DianiDepartment of Diagnostic and Public Health, Verona University, 37134 Verona, Italy.
Mohsen NavariDepartment of Medical Biotechnology, School of Paramedical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh University of Medical Sciences, Torbat Heydariyeh 33787 95169, Iran.
Davide GibelliniDepartment of Diagnostic and Public Health, Verona University, 37134 Verona, Italy.
University of Verona · ITMashhad University of Medical Sciences · IRNanchang University · CNUniversity of Bologna · IT

Funding

Cariverona Foundation, ENACT project VIRO-COVID 2017
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since December 2019, a pandemic caused by the newly identified SARS-CoV-2 spread across the entire globe, causing 364,191,494 confirmed cases of COVID-19 to date. SARS-CoV-2 is a betacoronavirus, a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA virus with four structural proteins: spike (S), envelope (E), membrane (M), and nucleocapsid (N). The S protein plays a crucial role both in cell binding and in the induction of a strong immune response during COVID-19 infection. The clinical impact of SARS-CoV-2 and its spread led to the urgent need for vaccine development to prevent viral transmission and to reduce the morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. Multiple platforms have been involved in the rapid development of vaccine candidates, with the S protein representing a major target because it can stimulate the immune system, yielding neutralizing antibodies (NAbs), blocking viral entry into host cells, and evoking T-cell immune responses. To date, 178 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidates have been challenged in clinical trials, of which 33 were approved by various national regulatory agencies. In this review, we discuss the FDA- and/or EMA-authorized vaccines that are mostly based on mRNA or viral vector platforms. Furthermore, we debunk false myths about the COVID-19 vaccine as well as discuss the impact of viral variants and the possible future developments.

Indexed as

coronavirusCOVID-19immunizationmRNASARS-CoV-2vaccineviral vector

Identifiers

PMID35334981
PMCPMC8950941
OpenAlexW4214860140

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Registered trials

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