Behind the Science: Behind COVID-19 in the NBA

Findings of a recent JAMA study exploring compared incidence of COVID-19 in vaccinated NBA players and staff showed that those who received a booster dose were significantly less likely to be infected during the Omicron wave. On this week’s Behind the Science, study authors Christina Mack, PhD, MPH, and Caroline Tai, PhD, MPH, who together lead epidemiologic efforts for agile analytics at IQVIA, discuss the preventive implications of the findings and how scientific and operational real-world data such as these can be leveraged as a foundation for future public health and clinical applications at scale.