Population Immunity and Persistence to SARS-CoV-2 Induced by Infection and Vaccination, Protection Against New Infections and Implication for Further Vaccination: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X). This special issue belongs to the section "COVID-19 Vaccines and Vaccination".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2025 | Viewed by 278
Special Issue Editors
Interests: infectious diseases; vaccine; disease burden; vaccine efficacy/effectiveness/impact; health economic evaluation; vaccination policy; seroepidemiology
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Dear Colleagues,
After the World Health Organization declared the end to COVID-19’s emergency phase, SARS-CoV-2 continues to evolve. Having a good knowledge of population immunity landscape and dynamics, understanding its protection against infections of variants and severity after infections, is critical for policy-making on actions that countries should take in the future. However, global, regional and national population immunity and their dynamic changes remain unknown, since it is complex and varied due to disparity of infections history and vaccination coverage across the world. The Special Issue aims to collect the latest research results on the sero-epidemiological characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination. With this in mind, we are pleased to invite the submission of original research articles and reviews investigating the infection incidence and its severity, population immunity landscape and the kinetics of antibodies following prior infections (with any variant), vaccination (particularly post-licensure) or both (hybrid immunity), protection (and cross-protection) against new variants infections, and providing new ideas for the COVID-19 vaccination strategy in the future, etc.
Looking forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Juan Yang
Dr. Wei Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- SARS-CoV-2
- COVID-19
- serology
- population immunity
- hybrid immunity
- vaccination
- antibody kinetics
- cross-protection
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