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Jenny Hall, part of PHE Team to show the first evidence that Covid vaccination reduces transmission
29 April 2021
Dr Jenny Hall 鈥� (Dept Reproductive Health) has been part of the Team at Public Health England to show the first evidence that vaccination with either the Prizer or Astra-Zeneca vaccines reduces transmission of Covid-19.
Dr Jenny Hall 聽鈥� (Dept Reproductive Health and Associate Professor and Clinical Academic Consultant in Public Health Medicine) has been part of the Team at Public Health England to show the first evidence that vaccination with either the Prizer or Astra-Zeneca vaccines reduces transmission of Covid-19 by 40-50%.聽 .听听
Jenny is working as a Senior Epidemiologist in the Epidemiology Cell as part of Public Health's England Coronavirus response. She is responsible for managing the team who produce the data for the weekly National Covid-19 Surveillance reports, as well as working on a number of other epidemiological investigations. One of these 鈥� HOSTED 鈥� the Household Transmission Evaluation Dataset has led to increased understanding of household transmission of SARS-CoV-2. and show that household transmission is not inevitable. A pre-print of new findings, widely covered in the media, has shown that .聽This is the first evidence of the effect of the vaccines on transmission from people who become cases despite having been vaccinated.