Sewell, Bernadette http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5471-922X
Farr, Angela http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2087-9310
Akbari, Ashley http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-0801
Carson-Stevens, Andrew http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7580-7699
Dale, Jeremy http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9256-3553
Edwards, Adrian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6228-4446
Evans, Bridie Angela http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0293-0888
John, Ann http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5657-6995
Torabi, Fatemeh http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5853-4625
Jolles, Stephen http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7394-6804
Kingston, Mark http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2242-4210
Lyons, Jane
Lyons, Ronan A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5225-000X
Porter, Alison http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3408-7007
Watkins, Alan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3804-1943
Williams, Victoria http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4747-9544
Snooks, Helen http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0173-8843
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Core Studies Immunity (NCSi4P) Programme (UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068, UoB WT Ref: 1745068)
Article History
Received: 10 February 2023
Accepted: 6 November 2023
First Online: 26 November 2023
Declarations
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: The EVITE Immunity study has received approval from the Newcastle North Tyneside 2 Research Ethics Committee (IRAS 295050). All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations as defined by the Declaration of Helsinki. Obtaining informed consent from patients did not apply to our study which involved retrospectively linking and analysing already collected and centrally held routine administrative data comprising anonymised electronic patient records. The need for informed consent for Welsh data were waived by the SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel (IGRP). The Welsh data were approved by the SAIL Databank Information Governance Review Panel for the use of SAIL project 0911.
: Not applicable.
: RL, SJ, AJ and AE are members of the Welsh Government COVID-19 Technical Advisory Group. AJ is also co-chair of the Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours, which is a subgroup of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies advising the UK government. SJ is also a member of the Welsh Government Testing Technical Advisory Group and Cardiff University COVID Strategic Advisory Board. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.