Impact of vaccines on the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey

Abstract

– COVID-19 (coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic continues to threaten public health and this situation is raising great concern all over the world. With the development of different vaccines, it was aimed to end the epidemic and increase community immunity in the past years. The research reduced public anxiety but the extent of the impact of vaccines in the pandemic is should be under investigation. Because the degree of availability of the COVID-19 vaccines was differing both nationally and globally. This makes it important to investigate how effective vaccination is on the epidemic. The main aim of this study is to investigate the possible recovery impact of vaccination on the COVID-19 pandemic in Turkey. In addition, the rates of severe disease during the first 3 doses of vaccination were also examined in this study. The analyses are conducted based on Spearman, Kendall and Pearson's correlation by using the data of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey. The obtained results showed that there are strong correlations between vaccination and recovery.