Walton, Muireann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7305-2261
Pletzer, Vadim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5179-765X
Teunissen, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6901-2577
Lumley, Thomas http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4255-5437
Hanlon, Timothy http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8700-1107
Article History
Accepted: 20 June 2023
First Online: 9 August 2023
Declarations
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: The work reported in this publication was undertaken by the Vaccine Safety Surveillance and Research Group during the COVID-19 Vaccine and Immunisation programme within the Ministry of Health New Zealand. Funding for this programme was provided by the New Zealand Government. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
: Muireann Walton, Vadim Pletzer, Thomas Teunissen, Thomas Lumley, and Timothy Hanlon have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
: This study did not require informed consent from individual participants as we used a de-identified dataset and received an exemption from the HDEC of New Zealand (Reference #:2022 OOS 11950).
: Not applicable.
: Not applicable.
: The data that support the findings of this study are not able to be made publicly available due to privacy and ethical restrictions outlined by New Zealand Legislation.
: The code used to conduct the analysis, but not the dataset, may be requested. Request should be directed to the first authors and will be granted upon reasonable request and permission from authorised persons.
: VP contributed to the statistical design, analysis, and interpretation of the data. MW contributed to the literature review, supported the statistical design and analysis, interpreted the data, wrote the manuscript, and revised the content. TT contributed to the conception of the study, supported the analysis, and interpreted the data. TL provided consultation on the statistical analysis and research. TH supervised the study and reviewed the content. All authors critically reviewed the manuscript and provided final approval of the version to be published.