https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2194

Receiving COVID-19 vaccine, hospitalization, and outcomes of patients with COVID-19: A prospective study

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Vol. 93 No. 1 (2023)
Submitted: January 5, 2022
Accepted: June 4, 2022
Published: June 24, 2022
COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, disease severity, hospitalization, mortality rate
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Deldar Morad Abdulah
deldarmorad@gmail.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8986-5793
Community Health Unit, College of Nursing, University of Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, Duhok, Iraq.
Abbas Muhammed Sadiq Mirza
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-0475
Azadi Teaching Hospital and Duhok General Directorate of Health, Iraqi Kurdistan, Duhok, Iraq.

Despite Iraq having started the COVID-19 vaccine in January 2020, there is no official data on vaccination and hospitalization across the country. We aimed to explore the role of the COVID-19 vaccine on the hospitalization and outcomes of patients with COVID-19 in Iraqi Kurdistan. In this prospective study, patients who were admitted to two COVID-19 hospitals in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2021 were followed-up by the discharge time between August and November 2021. The mean age of the patients was 57.6 (27-98 years) of both genders. Most of the patients were illiterate (69.3%) or had a lower level of education (20.5%). A small percentage of patients had previous thrombotic disorders (4.7%) and close to half of the patients had chronic diseases (44.9%). The patients had mild to moderate (44.9%), moderate-severe (36.2%), and critical (18.9%) status. The median hospitalization day was 9 days (1-45 days). The study found that 91.3% of the COVID-19 hospitalized patients did not receive the vaccine and 26.8% of patients died. We did not find a significant association between receiving vaccination and patients’ outcomes or disease severity. No patients with previous thrombotic disorders received the COVID-19 vaccine. The male patients were more likely to receive the COVID-19 vaccine compared to female patients; 14.55% vs. 4.17%, p=0.0394.  This study showed that most patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to the hospitals have not received the COVID-19 vaccine. A high percentage of the COVID-19 hospitalized patients died of the disease in this region.

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Abdulah, Deldar Morad, and Abbas Muhammed Sadiq Mirza. 2022. “Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine, Hospitalization, and Outcomes of Patients With COVID-19: A Prospective Study”. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease 93 (1). https://doi.org/10.4081/monaldi.2022.2194.
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