Immunogenicity and real-world effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in Lebanon: Insights from primary and booster schemes, variants, infections, and hospitalization

• Rima Moghnieh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: moghniehrima@gmail.com, rima.moghnieh@laumcrh.com

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-7555

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• Wajdi Haddad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wajdi Haddad, Nayla Jbeily

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Central Military Hospital, Military Healthcare, Lebanese Army, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Nayla Jbeily ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Wajdi Haddad, Nayla Jbeily

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Head of Laboratory Department, FMPS Holding S.A.L., Beirut, Lebanon

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• Salam El-Hassan,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration

  Affiliation Nursing Office, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Shadi Eid ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ SE, HB and MS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

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• Hicham Baba ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ SE, HB and MS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

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• Marilyne Sily ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

  ¶‡ SE, HB and MS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine, Lebanese American University, Byblos, Lebanon

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• Yara Saber,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Laboratory Department, FMPS Holding S.A.L., Beirut, Lebanon

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• Dania Abdallah,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Pharmacy Department, Makassed General Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Abdul Rahman Bizri,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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• Mohamed H. Sayegh

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, Department of Health and Human Services, GAP Solutions (Contract No. 75N93019D00026), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, United States of America

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