Study Explores COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness
Study Explores COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness
The AZ HEROES research study is tracking viral immunity over time and assessing vaccine effectiveness in Arizona essential workers and college students.
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University of Arizona Police Chief Brian Seastone gets vaccinated at Campus Health.
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Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Healthshipherd@arizona.edu520-626-9669To better understand the complexities of the immune response to the novel coronavirus and evaluate the viral immunity of Arizona essential workers, a University of Arizona Health Sciences research team has been conducting a COVID-19 study since last summer called the Arizona Healthcare, Emergency Response, and Other Essential Workers Surveillance study, orAZ HEROES. The team recently expanded its efforts to look at how well COVID-19 vaccines are working to provide lasting immunity for high-risk populations.The first iteration of AZ HEROES was launched by researchers in theMel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and theCollege of Medicine – Tucson to test immunity in essential workers – health care workers, first responders and other frontline workers – across Arizona.Burgess-Jeff_klh5147-crop.jpg
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Source: The University of Arizona: Health - Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: mittank Source Type: research
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