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Funding for this research was provided by:
Pfizer
Article History
Received: 19 September 2025
Accepted: 13 November 2025
First Online: 22 November 2025
Declarations
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: The prospective observational cohort study of adults admitted to two large university hospitals (Southmead, and Bristol Royal Infirmary) in Bristol, UK, was conducted in accordance with the International Conference for Harmonisation of Good Clinical Practice (ICCH GCP), the UK Policy Framework for Health and Social Care Research, and the Declaration of Helsinki, and was approved by the East of England—Essex Research Ethics Committee, Health Research Authority reference 20/EE/0157, ISRCTN: 17354061. Informed consent was obtained from patients with capacity, and declarations for participation from consultees for individuals lacking capacity. If it was not practicable to approach individuals for consent, data were included using approval from the Clinical Advisory Group under Sect. 251 of the 2006 NHS Act.
: CH is Principal Investigator of the AvonCAP study which is an investigator-led University of Bristol study funded by Pfizer and has previously received support from the NIHR in an Academic Clinical Fellowship. JO is a Co-Investigator on the AvonCAP Study. LD is further supported by UKRI through the JUNIPER consortium (grant number MR/V038613/1), MRC (grant number MC/PC/19067), EPSRC (EP/V051555/1 and The Alan Turing Institute, grant EP/N510129/1). AF was a member of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunization (JCVI) until January 2024 and remains a member of the JCVI RSV subcommittee. In addition to receiving funding from Pfizer as Chief Investigator of this study, he leads another project investigating transmission of respiratory bacteria in families jointly funded by Pfizer and the Gates Foundation and is an investigator in trials of COVID-19 vaccines including ChAdOx1nCOV-19, Janssen, Sanofi and Valneva vaccines. NM is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research Bristol Biomedical Research Centre. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. All authors with Pfizer affiliations (EB, JS, ML, KS, BDG) were employees of Pfizer at the time of this work and may own Pfizer stock.