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ReviewVaccines2022

Understanding COVID-19 Vaccines Today: Are T-cells Key Players?

Areez Shafqat, Tarek Z Arabi, Belal N Sabbah, Humzah S Abdulkader, Shameel Shafqat, Adhil Razak, Junaid Kashir, Khaled Alkattan, Ahmed Yaqinuddin

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Review in Vaccines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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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

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

9 authors.

Areez ShafqatCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1202-7214
Tarek Z ArabiCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6292-7683
Belal N SabbahCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-9131-7430
Humzah S AbdulkaderCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-6832-1877
Shameel ShafqatMedical College, Aga Khan University, P.O. Box 3500, Karachi, Pakistan.
Adhil RazakCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.
Junaid KashirCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5056-8222
Khaled AlkattanCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-1372-9883
Ahmed YaqinuddinCollege of Medicine, Alfaisal University, Riyadh 11533, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0001-7536-910X

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has heavily mutated since the beginning of the coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this regard, the so-called variants of concern (VOCs) feature mutations that confer increased transmissibility and evasion of antibody responses. The VOCs have caused significant spikes in COVID-19 cases, raising significant concerns about whether COVID-19 vaccines will protect against current and future variants. In this context, whereas the protection COVID-19 vaccines offer against the acquisition of infection appears compromised, the protection against severe COVID-19 is maintained. From an immunologic standpoint, this is likely underpinned by the maintenance of T-cell responses against VOCs. Therefore, the role of T-cells is essential to understanding the broader adaptive immune response to COVID-19, which has the potential to shape public policies on vaccine protocols and inform future vaccine design. In this review, we survey the literature on the immunology of T-cell responses upon SARS-CoV-2 vaccination with the current FDA-approved and Emergency Use Authorized COVID-19 vaccines.

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cell-mediated immunityCOVID-19 vaccinesSARS-CoV-2T-cellsvariants of concern

Identifiers

PMID35746512
PMCPMC9227180

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