Abstract:

Background: Although Covid-19 vaccines cannot prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2, they do allow infected people to have a milder illness. In unvaccinated people, the disease progresses more severely and the disease can be fatal. Both inactivated (Sinovac) and mRNA (Biontech-Pfizer) vaccines are used in Turkey. In this retrospective study, clinical course, radiological involvement and some laboratory parameters that are important for Covid-19 were compared in unvaccinated and vaccinated patients who were infected and followed up in the hospital. Material and methods: Patients between the ages of 17-95 who were hospitalized in the Covid-19 isolation wards between June 2021 and November 2021 were included in the study. Various datas of patients were scanned retrospectively from the hospital registry system. Results: While there was no difference in the mean age, highest fibrinogen, D-dimer, ferritin, creatinine, interleukin-6 (IL6) values and Covid-19 PCR test negative times besides antibody levels, Group 2 (7.8 days) was found to be discharged significantly earlier than Group 1 (12.69 days) (p=0.046). There was a significant difference in low-dose thoracic computed tomography (CT) findings between the two groups (p= 0.023). Discussion: Our study results showed that regardless of the type of vaccine, vaccination against Covid-19 reduces hospitalization rates, length of stay and prevents serious involvement in the lungs.

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