Is the BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccine effective in elderly populations? Results from population data from Bavaria, Germany

• Delphina Gomes ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Delphina Gomes, Andreas Beyerlein

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Andreas Beyerlein ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Delphina Gomes, Andreas Beyerlein

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

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• Katharina Katz,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Gabriele Hoelscher,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Uta Nennstiel,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Bernhard Liebl,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority, Oberschleissheim, Germany

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• Klaus Überla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical and Molecular Virology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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• Rüdiger von Kries

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ruediger.kries@med.uni-muenchen.de

  Affiliation Division of Pediatric Epidemiology, Institute of Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3646-0714

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