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Novel Representations of Vaccine Protection Against Progression to Severe Disease Over Time

2026-02-14 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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BackgroundVaccines can prevent severe disease by preventing infection or by reducing progression among those who become infected. Vaccine effectiveness against progression given infection is often used to quantify this second mechanism, but it conditions on infection, which is itself affected by vaccination. As a result, this estimand lacks a clear causal interpretation and may behave non-intuitively over time. MethodsWe introduce a conceptual framework that models protection against infection ...

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