Tình hình tiêm vắc xin phòng COVID-19 và một số đặc điểm dịch tễ liên quan đến tử vong do bệnh COVID-19 tại Đồng Tháp năm 2021

Abstract

Vaccination is considered one of the most successful proven measures of disease prevention in human history. This research aims to describe the situation of vaccination and analyze the association between epidemiological characteristics and deaths by Covid-19 in Dong Thap in 2021. The study applied retrospective method using secondary data based on the statistic of Covid-19 patients who were treated in Dong Thap. There were 13,709 patients whose information was collected from statistical data. The results showed that the percentage of unvaccinated patients was 20.4%, one-shot-vaccition patients was 14.3% and patients with 2 or more shots of vaccination was 65.3%. The mortality rate due to Covid-19 was 0.2%. Using multivariable logistic regression, the results showed that age and vaccination were the only two independent factors associated with mortality (p<0.05). The study suggests to increase vaccination against Covid-19 for community in order to create immunity and reduce the mortality rate when infected with Covid-19.