<p>We conducted a cross-sectional study using secondary data from 384 randomly sampled COVID-19 patient admission records. Participants were any COVID-19 patients hospitalized at the central hospital in Harare from March 2020 to September 2022. Data on demographic and clinical characteristics, vaccination status and treatment outcome were collected using an adapted abstraction tool. Descriptive statistics, odds ratios (OR), and % confidence intervals were generated using Epi Info 7.2.4.0.</p>