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Are You Really Vaccinated and Protected Against CoVid?
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/zykNllfsRmw
With the continuing invasion of new and more menacing CoVid Omicron subvariants, the CDC now gives us the sobering statistics about the current effectiveness of the first generation, so-called monovalent vaccination shots and boosters. Using electronic medical record data from 21 hospitals in 18 states over the first 8 months of 2022, the study reports the protection afforded by 2 immunizing doses and 1 or 2 booster doses of the vaccine for some 4730 adult patients.
During the early Omicron period with BA1/2 predominant, the overall vaccine effectiveness was 69%. During the more recent BA4/5 era, the overall vaccine effectiveness dropped to 31%. The vaccine effectiveness against BA4/5 also falls sharply over 3.5 months following the last shot. For 2 shots and a booster, it dropped from 60% to 29%. For 2 shots and 2 boosters, the effectiveness was only 61% after the 3 months. And these rather abysmal statistics were gathered even before the latest and most aggressiveness subvariants BQ1.1 and XBB.
What does this all mean for you? It means that if you expect to escape a nasty and maybe lethal case of CoVid as well as spreading it to those you love, you’d better be getting another booster if its been 4 months since your last shot. The booster you should be getting is the new bivalent Omicron-specific booster that promises the optimal protection and its available for all those 5 years and older.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7142a3.htm
#omicron #CoVid #vaccine #booster #BA1/2 #BA4/5 #BQ1.1
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By Howard G. Smith MD, AM
Vidcast: https://youtu.be/zykNllfsRmw
With the continuing invasion of new and more menacing CoVid Omicron subvariants, the CDC now gives us the sobering statistics about the current effectiveness of the first generation, so-called monovalent vaccination shots and boosters. Using electronic medical record data from 21 hospitals in 18 states over the first 8 months of 2022, the study reports the protection afforded by 2 immunizing doses and 1 or 2 booster doses of the vaccine for some 4730 adult patients.
During the early Omicron period with BA1/2 predominant, the overall vaccine effectiveness was 69%. During the more recent BA4/5 era, the overall vaccine effectiveness dropped to 31%. The vaccine effectiveness against BA4/5 also falls sharply over 3.5 months following the last shot. For 2 shots and a booster, it dropped from 60% to 29%. For 2 shots and 2 boosters, the effectiveness was only 61% after the 3 months. And these rather abysmal statistics were gathered even before the latest and most aggressiveness subvariants BQ1.1 and XBB.
What does this all mean for you? It means that if you expect to escape a nasty and maybe lethal case of CoVid as well as spreading it to those you love, you’d better be getting another booster if its been 4 months since your last shot. The booster you should be getting is the new bivalent Omicron-specific booster that promises the optimal protection and its available for all those 5 years and older.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7142a3.htm
#omicron #CoVid #vaccine #booster #BA1/2 #BA4/5 #BQ1.1