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For Participants

Thank you for your interest in PReventing Emerging Infections through Vaccine EffectiveNess Testing (Project PREVENT). PREVENT is public health surveillance project  being conducted at 16 U.S. hospitals to measure the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines. This project is being funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 

If you are a health care worker, you have been recently tested for COVID-19, and your hospital is participating, you may qualify to participate in Project PREVENT. You do not need to have received a COVID-19 vaccine and you do not need to have a positive COVID-19 test.  If you qualify for the project, you will not be given any vaccines or treatments. We will ask you to complete two surveys about your illness, your exposures, vaccines you have received, and your health care visits.