People With More COVID-19 Vaccine Doses More Likely to Contract COVID-19: Study

Vaccinated people were at higher risk of contracting COVID-19, researchers find.

A health care worker fills a syringe with Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in an undated file image. Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

People who received more than one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to contract COVID-19, according to a new study.

An analysis of data from Cleveland Clinic employees found that people who received two or more doses were at higher risk of COVID-19, Dr. Nabin Shrestha and his co-authors reported.