(MedPage Today) While the world turns its attention to Qatar for the World Cup, the tiny Middle Eastern nation jutting into the Persian Gulf is more recognized in the medical research community for providing some of the earliest insights into vaccine efficacy, waning immunity, and reinfection during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a national healthcare system and a focus on collecting the right data, researchers there were able to answer some of the most critical questions about COVID as they came up, publishing frequently in top-tier journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Nature Medicine, and others.
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