Posted on 12/29/2021 12:02:45 PM PST by Mount Athos
Even at the peak of their protection earlier in 2021, Covid vaccines barely reduced the risk of hospitalizations in vaccinated people who had “breakthrough” infections, new data show.
Vaccinated people in a study published Tuesday had a nearly 1 in 200 chance of of requiring hospitalization for Covid in the first six months after being “fully vaccinated.”
That stunning risk came even though the median age of people in the study was only 51, and most were relatively healthy.
Deaths, ventilator use, and other severe outcomes also occurred regularly in vaccinated people. The data comes from a study of about 600,000 vaccinated Americans seen at over 100 academic medical centers.
The study was published online Dec. 28 in the Journal of the American Medical Association - JAMA Internal Medicine.
The data in the study also make clear how quickly vaccine protection fades after the second dose - and that the Centers for Disease Control hugely understated the number of vaccinated people hospitalized for Covid earlier this year.
Of the 600,000 fully vaccinated people, about 2,800 required inpatient hospitalization for Covid in the first six months after “full vaccination.” That period starts 14 days after the second dose of mRNA vaccines, when vaccine protection should be at peak.
Almost 3 percent of fully vaccinated people, or 1 in 35, were infected over the first six months, with infection rates accelerating sharply at the end of the study.
In all, 148 of the 600,000 vaccinated people had what the study’s authors called “serious” outcomes from Covid, including ventilation or death, in the first six months after full vaccination.
The study does not reveal how many people were infected or hospitalized for Covid after the first dose or less than two weeks after the second, when rates of infection, hospitalization, and death are known to be even higher.
The stunning figures are buried in a supplemental table of the study, which focused on the post-vaccination risk to a small group of people who have serious immune complications. The paper’s researchers compared infection, hospitalization, and death rates in about 35,000 immune-compromised people with about 570,000 who did not.
Somewhat surprisingly, the researchers found immune-compromised people had only a slight extra risk of SARS-Cov-2 infection, though they had about three times the risk of dying from Covid as people without immune disorders.
But by far the most interesting figures in the study are contained in a single small table in an appendix.
It compares the outcomes of the roughly 18,000 vaccinated and infected people seem at the medical centers with a much larger group of Covid patients - about 2.5 million people - who were not vaccinated and visited the same centers at any point during the epidemic.
About 84 percent of the vaccinated patients were seen as outpatients, while 16 percent required hospitalization.
In comparison, about 77 percent of unvaccinated patients were seen as outpatients, while 23 percent were hospitalized.
Almost 1 percent of the vaccinated patients had serious outcomes, including death, compared to just over 2 percent of the unvaccinated patients.
The study contained no information about post-vaccine side effects.
The findings run contrary to the endlessly repeated promises of Covid vaccine advocates that even if vaccines fail to prevent infection, they are necessary to keep hospitals from being overrun. They also help bring American hospitalization data - which is both fragmented and hopelessly politicized in a desperate effort to prove vaccine efficacy - more in line with figures from the United Kingdom and other countries.
What’s vaccinated shill? 2 jabs? 4 jabs? 8 jabs? 14 days after 4th jab?
Digging into the data showed it only made a material difference for seniors 65+. And only made a big difference for 75+.
Maybe these shots should be used only for seniors 65+ and older.
Sure. It may have some consequences with your employer or private business owners but that's the price of freedom.
How do you think Alex Berenson makes his living?
“What’s vaccinated shill?”
I really don’t care if people get vaxxed or not. Knock yourself out by not getting the shots.
My wife and I thought it was best for us after speaking to our doctors.
When you or your loved ones can barely breathe and suffocating the vaccine will not help you then.
Doug Kuzma the anti vaxx podcaster (FROG Network) said on his his FB page whe would never go to a hospital for covid. Well he is on a ventilator right now.
So the Notavax’s are just as big a virtue signal as the masking.
Good idea, maybe we can wear t shirts that say PUREBLOOD
But you don't believe in science, so natural immunity is not acceptable to you. There is no way for you to control other people and profit from natural immunity.
You only believe in sciency narratives that enable you to bully the people you hate into obeying your psychotic, arbitrary "Simon Says" rules.
If somebody is going to claim that they refuse to go to a hospital, they should put that in writing as a living will and not clog up a hospital with someone who actually wants to get medical care.
RFK Jr has told the entire story.
Prepare for “Great Change”.
See tagline.
“2) The vaccines have side effects. Bad side effects. Worse side effects than anyone was willing to admit.”
Penicillen kills 10% who take it. No vaccine is 100% harmless. Every vaccine you took as a young kid somone died from it.
Berenson isn’t an anti-vax quack.
You only believe in sciency narratives that enable you to bully the people you hate into obeying your psychotic, arbitrary "Simon Says" rules.
I'm just going to let this stand as a near-perfect illustration of the irrationality on display on these threads.
You have never seen me disparage natural immunity in any way.
You've never seen me tell or even ask anyone to get vaccinated.
You've never seen me advocate for mandates.
Yet you come out with this hysterical, paranoid screed as if I was pulling up in a cattle car.
People are free to do what they want. I try point out the crap misinformation that's too often posted here so they can make honestly informed decisions.
Not sure why you feel so threatened by that.
You don’t seem to mind that this is a biological warfare attack.
It’s perfectly fine with you.
You are perfectly content to beat your meat every day proving how sciency you are instead of addressing what is actually going on.
From NIH.
Thats a lot less than 10% and thats only anaphylaxix not deaths.
RFK Jr has told the entire story.
Prepare for “Great Change”.
See tagline.
No they aren’t, silly. Obey.
Nah, the vaxxed are dying at home from heart attacks, massive strokes, resurgence of cancer, and “died suddenly”.
But you ignore those.
I note you were a Covid sign up here…
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