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Coronavirus boosters cut hospitalization risk by at least 50%, CDC data shows
WaPo ^ | 12/16/2022 | Lena H. Sun

Posted on 12/16/2022 3:34:39 PM PST by semimojo

Adults who received the updated coronavirus booster shots are better protected against severe disease than those who haven’t, cutting their risk of having to visit an emergency room or being hospitalized with covid-19 by 50 percent or more, according to new federal data.

Two reports released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give the first detailed look at how well the updated boosters from Pfizer and Moderna protect against serious illness. But uptake of the “bivalent” boosters rolled out in September has been low among vaccine-weary Americans, with only about 14 percent of those eligible — ages 5 and older — having received an updated shot...

For people 65 and older who have received the updated booster, “there is significant added protection against severe disease and hospitalization,” Link-Gelles said. “You’re really getting in the sort of range of 70 to 80 percent extra protection on top of your monovalent or your older vaccine doses.”

But about 150 million Americans who are eligible for an updated booster have yet to receive one. That includes more than 28 million who are 65 years and older, the population at highest risk for severe covid-19, who have not had a shot in more than 11 months, she said.

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To: semimojo

We might as well accept it: They will NEVER give up!


21 posted on 12/16/2022 3:58:56 PM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: semimojo

It’s from the CDC...it’s a lie and the study is fake.


22 posted on 12/16/2022 4:05:02 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Biden not only suffers fools and criminals, he appoints them to positions of responsibility. )
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To: semimojo

After lying to us for the last almost three years on any and every thing Covid related, we’re now supposed to believe that they are telling us the truth and giving us accurate information?


23 posted on 12/16/2022 4:05:56 PM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: semimojo
--- "Coronavirus boosters cut hospitalization risk by at least 50%, CDC data shows"

An interesting headline. Here's a question -- how would one know from data that "risk" was reduced? Incidences, sure. Number of deaths, yeah, and as we see, the number of deaths is waning massively now. But risk? This is an actuarial assessment.

One notes the journalism lingo. Americans are "vaccine-wary." So tell them risk is lessened? How about no risk. Covid over three full years has a death rate of only 0.085 percent. Only 99.915 percent survived with and without the "vaccine." Weary yet? CDC will; set you straight and the Washington Post will publicize / market the product for you.

24 posted on 12/16/2022 4:12:23 PM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: AlaskaErik

Not getting any of the clot shots.

Have not been ill since 2017, praise the Lord.


25 posted on 12/16/2022 4:14:03 PM PST by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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To: systemjim
We might as well accept it: They will NEVER give up!

I can accept that.

As long as they are all fired.

"Anyone that was involved. Anybody who profited from it. Anybody who..."

26 posted on 12/16/2022 4:14:55 PM PST by flamberge (You can ignore reality. You cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.)
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To: semimojo

BS. It sent me to the hospital the next day.


27 posted on 12/16/2022 4:16:13 PM PST by Don Corleone (leave the gun, take the canolis)
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To: HYPOCRACY

lol... Ditto!!


28 posted on 12/16/2022 4:17:14 PM PST by sit-rep ( )
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To: semimojo

Anything out of the CDC is untrustworthy.


29 posted on 12/16/2022 4:19:03 PM PST by falcon99 ( )
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To: semimojo

Unless and until FedGov opens up the market to efficacious therapeutics, there should be no other requirement os ANYONE.


30 posted on 12/16/2022 4:20:30 PM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. The Dhimmicraps are ALL Traitors. All of them.)
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To: AlaskaErik

Never had the jab either nor has the wife, our kids and grandkids. Never took a test either and may or may or have had the covid cold.

It’s all BS except to the covidians, they’re stocking up on mask already.


31 posted on 12/16/2022 4:21:55 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

That’s what I thought.


32 posted on 12/16/2022 4:23:08 PM PST by CapnJack ( )
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To: semimojo
Uh, no. Come on, does anyone believe the CDC any more? Hey, want a share in the Brooklyn Bridge?
33 posted on 12/16/2022 4:27:45 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: semimojo

32 post and not one word from mojo. Unless I missed it, not one positive response to your CDC nonsense. What are your thoughts?


34 posted on 12/16/2022 4:29:45 PM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! He will win 2024!)
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To: cuz1961

bttt


35 posted on 12/16/2022 4:35:49 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: semimojo

Even if true — which is doubtful, it in no way justifies the deaths that resulted from the vax.


36 posted on 12/16/2022 4:36:05 PM PST by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: semimojo

Is there a punchline to the title of this article???


37 posted on 12/16/2022 4:50:16 PM PST by week 71
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To: semimojo

CDC , ROFL


38 posted on 12/16/2022 4:56:53 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: semimojo

Correlation, causation.

I am not sure whether this is a factor, or not. Do people who get boosters tend to use drugs less? Be younger? Not have underlying conditions? Have better health insurance? Are they more risk averse in general? Etc. Got to weigh all the factors.


39 posted on 12/16/2022 5:10:46 PM PST by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: semimojo

And we should believe their “data” because…?


40 posted on 12/16/2022 5:33:10 PM PST by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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