Mayo Clinic Proceedings Letter to the Editor Protective Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine Among Health Care Workers During the Second Wave of the Pandemic in India AUTHORS: Peter John Victor, MD, DNB, MAMS, FRACP, FJFICM, FCICM, FICCM, FRCP (Edin), M. Phil Professor, Intensive Care Medicine, Director Christian Medical College Vellore ORCID: 0000-0002-3423-1830 K Prasad Mathews, MD, FRACP Professor, Geriatric Medicine, Medical Superintendent & Chairperson, Hospital Infection Control Committee Christian Medical College Vellore Hema Paul, MD Associate Physician, Department of Microbiology, Member, Hospital Infection Control Committee Christian Medical College Vellore ORCID: Malathi Murugesan, MD Senior Resident, Department of Microbiology, Member Hospital Infection Control Committee Christian Medical College Vellore ORCID: 0000-0003-1250-7557 Joy J Mammen, MD Professor, Department of Transfusion Medicine, Associate Director, Christian Medical College Vellore ORCID: 0000-0002-7349-5660 DISCLOSURES: There is no conflictUncorrected of interest or financial Journal disclosure Pre-Prooffor all the authors listed in this submission CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Joy J Mammen MD Professor, Department of Transfusion Medicine Christian Medical College Vellore
[email protected] +91 416 229 2536 © 2021 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. Mayo Clin Proc. 2021;96(x):xx-xx. Mayo Clinic Proceedings Letter to the Editor To the Editor: Vaccination has played a major role in eradicating communicable diseases.1 Since healthcare workers, (HCWs) serve in the forefront during pandemics, they are particularly vulnerable. Thus, in the COVID-19 pandemic, it was imperative to vaccinate frontline workers as quickly as possible and ascertain the extent of protection offered by vaccination. Christian Medical College, Vellore, a 2600-bed tertiary care hospital in India with 10600 employees, vaccinated 8991 staff (84.8%) between 21st January 2021 and 30th April 2021.