COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Hospitalization in Albania, July 2022-2023

Effectiveness of complete COVID-19 vaccination against hospitalization among patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) in Albania. The data was collected through the SARI sentinel surveillance system between 1st July 2022 and 1st July 2023. It was authored by Jonilda Sulo and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Estimate vaccine effectiveness against severe COVID-19 outcomes based on hospitalization data.
• Monitor trends in COVID-19 hospitalization rates among vaccinated populations.
• Evaluate the performance of sentinel surveillance systems for respiratory illness.
• Inform public health policy on vaccination strategies based on real-world evidence.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific one-year period (July 2022 to July 2023).
• Focuses on a clinically relevant outcome: hospitalization among SARI patients.
• Explicitly measures the effect of complete vaccination status.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, suggesting limited scope or aggregated summary data.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for detailed modeling.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

SARI sentinel surveillance

Time Range

1st July 2022 - 1st July 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 17:37:37; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Albania