Unvaccinated adults were 23 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 during the omicron wave than adults who were vaccinated and boosted, according to a new study that further highlights the importance of coronavirus vaccination and booster shots.
The study, released Tuesday, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found by far the highest rates of cases and hospitalizations among unvaccinated people, followed by vaccinated but not boosted people, with vaccinated and boosted people having the most protection.
The study used data from Los Angeles County as of Jan. 8, during the omicron wave.
Hospitalizations were 5.3 times higher among the unvaccinated than vaccinated but not boosted.
“Efforts to promote COVID-19 vaccination and boosters are critical to preventing COVID-19–associated hospitalizations and severe outcomes,” the study states.
While the largest effects were in reducing hospitalizations, the study also shows that vaccines and boosters lowered the chance of getting infected at all. The protection is not total, meaning there are still frequent breakthrough cases, but the severity is far lower among people who are vaccinated and boosted than among the unvaccinated.
Case rates among unvaccinated people were 3.6 times higher than vaccinated and boosted people, and two times higher than vaccinated and not boosted people, the study found.
The study also found that, as expected, there was some drop-off in the performance of the vaccines against omicron compared with the delta variant, given omicron’s increased ability to evade protection.
Gaps between the unvaccinated and vaccinated were even larger with the delta variant, with a hospitalization rate 83 times higher for the unvaccinated compared to boosted people, and a case rate 12.3 times higher.
“Rate ratios indicated continued protection conferred by vaccine against severe disease, especially among those who had received a booster, although reduced for Omicron compared with Delta,” the study states.
Health officials are urging more people to get boosted. About 44 percent of fully vaccinated adults have also received a booster, according to CDC data.
CDC: COVID-19 hospitalizations 23 times higher for unvaccinated than boosted
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Sure … there are all sorts of validated studies that show vaccines work. But do the anti-vaxxers and/or the virus-denying people care? Not. At. All. Their “personal rights” are FAR more important than the death of others.
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Hello Nan. In the last couple days Joe Rogan read a New York Times headline about Ivermectin saying a new study found it helped with Covid. He tweeted it out. It got millions of likes. But the headline was incorrect, and the Times corrected it shortly after. If Rogan or any of the millions that liked it had read the article they would have seen the story said it did not help with Covid. So did Rogan admit he was wrong and correct his misinformation. Nope he just deleted the tweet meaning all the other people who agreed with it and people like Jordan Peterson who wrote they were vindicated by it still had their tweets up based on a deleted false information tweet. As to those demanding their rights, what about their responsibility? What about their humanity, their love for their fellow man?
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their love for their fellow man? — Surely you jest!! These folks have NO love for anyone BUT themselves. Haven’t you figured this out by now??? 😮
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