COVID-19 Vaccines Protect Against Severe Illness During Delta

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The effectiveness of COVID-19 in protecting against severe illness during Delta:

A trio of studies in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) today show that COVID vaccines protect very well against the Delta (B1617.2) variant, with unvaccinated people having 5 times the risk of infection and more than 10 times the risk of hospitalization or death compared with vaccinated people.

Researchers analyzed data that included the period of Delta variant dominance in the United States, and their results indicate that the Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines all show strong vaccine effectiveness (VE) against severe COVID-19.

Once Delta became the dominant strain, VE went from 91% to 78% against COVID-19 infection, 92% to 90% against hospitalization, and 94% to 91% against death. Those who were older, however, had higher hospitalization and death rates whether they were vaccinated or not, the researchers say.

Averaged weekly, age-standardized IRRs for cases among unvaccinated or partially vaccinated people decreased from 11.1 to 4.6 compared with those fully vaccinated, according to the data. In other words, the infection risk in a fully vaccinated person was one-fifth that of someone not vaccinated. IRRs for hospitalizations and deaths also declined, from 13.3 to 10.4 and 16.6 to 11.3, respectively.

The study authors note that unvaccinated people in the Delta-dominant era are more than 10 times likely to be hospitalized from COVID-19 or to die from it than vaccinated people are.
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https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-per...s-protect-against-severe-illness-during-delta
 

Yeah, but SeaBreeze, presenting the facts is a waste of time when dealing with the "true believers." The anti-vaccine nonsense has embedded itself like a toxic worm into the minds of those who are blindly following the advice of their chosen political leaders. It's a cult.

Statistics don't matter. Truth doesn't matter. Science doesn't matter. Like lemmings jumping off a cliff, they keep reciting "The pharmaceutical companies are getting rich," their current mantra. Meanwhile, the bodies continue to pile up.

Thanks for trying, anyway.
 
Sunny said:
Yeah, but SeaBreeze, presenting the facts is a waste of time when dealing with the "true believers." The anti-vaccine nonsense has embedded itself like a toxic worm into the minds of those who are blindly following the advice of their chosen political leaders. It's a cult.

Statistics don't matter. Truth doesn't matter. Science doesn't matter. Like lemmings jumping off a cliff, they keep reciting "The pharmaceutical companies are getting rich," their current mantra. Meanwhile, the bodies continue to pile up.

Thanks for trying, anyway.
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Well, I post information to benefit anyone who wants to read it and take something from it. If something catches my eye and seems interesting, if I have time, I'll post it for others to read. Not here to convince the close minded folks of anything, they usually regret not getting the vaccine when they're dying in a hospital somewhere. Most of the hospitalized and dying are unvaccinated people, you, I and other reasonable Americans know that. It's not a big surprise, and those who cover their eyes and ears are just denying reality, lest they publicly take lightly the 700,000+ dead fellow Americans by accepting the facts. It's easier for them to deny the devastation and loss of life due to this deadly pandemic and those who refuse to take precautions to prevent its aggressive spread.
 

We, and everyone in our family, have taken the vaccines. At the minimum, it gives us the satisfaction that we don't have to "stress out" every time we go to the store, etc. We wear a mask anywhere it is required, but otherwise, we are back to living a normal life.

Those who think these vaccines are a "poison", or some sort of government conspiracy, etc. can do as they chose....UNTIL they get sick. The bad thing is that these "deniers" are filling our hospitals, and making it very hard for those with other conditions to get the care they need. If it were up to me, those who show up at a hospital, unvaccinated, would be give a free bottle of aspirin, and sent on their way.
 
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