Evaluation of adverse events and comorbidity exacerbation following the COVID-19 booster dose: A national survey among randomly-selected booster recipients

Dvora Frankenthal; Miri Zatlawi; Ziv Karni-Efrati; Lital Keinan-Boker; Aharona Glatman-Freedman; Michal Bromberg

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0326231

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Evaluation of adverse events and comorbidity exacerbation following the COVID-19 booster dose: A national survey among randomly-selected booster recipients

Dvora Frankenthal ,

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: dvora.frankenthal@MOH.GOV.IL

Affiliation Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3266-6491

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Miri Zatlawi,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8289-9923

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Ziv Karni-Efrati,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel, Center for Research and Study of Aging, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Lital Keinan-Boker,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Aharona Glatman-Freedman ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Michal Bromberg

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel, The school of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Michal Bromberg

Contributed equally to this work with: Aharona Glatman-Freedman, Michal Bromberg

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

¶These authors contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Ministry of Health, The Israel Center for Disease Control, Ramat Gan, Israel, The school of Public Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Evaluation of adverse events and comorbidity exacerbation following the COVID-19 booster dose: A national survey among randomly-selected booster recipients

Dvora Frankenthal,
Miri Zatlawi,
Ziv Karni-Efrati,
Lital Keinan-Boker,
Aharona Glatman-Freedman,
Michal Bromberg

Published: July 11, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326231

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