Influence of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations on cluster events among patients and staff in a tertiary-care hospital in Germany

Michael Eisenmann; Vera Rauschenberger; Kerstin Knies; Gerhard Schwarzmann; Ulrich Vogel; Manuel Krone

doi:10.1017/ash.2021.234

Influence of severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccinations on cluster events among patients and staff in a tertiary-care hospital in Germany

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2022 Feb 18;2(1):e26. doi: 10.1017/ash.2021.234. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Michael Eisenmann^#¹, Vera Rauschenberger^#^{1

2}, Kerstin Knies³, Gerhard Schwarzmann⁴, Ulrich Vogel^{1

2}, Manuel Krone^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Unit, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
² Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
³ Institute for Virology and Immunobiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.
⁴ Quality Control Unit, University Hospital Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

In total, 20 severe acute respiratory coronavirus virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) clusters were analyzed in a tertiary-care hospital from the beginning of the pandemic until July 2021. After the second pandemic wave, the number of clusters decreased with increasing vaccination rates and community infections increased again. These findings should motivate healthcare workers to participate in SARS-CoV-2 vaccination campaigns.