According to a new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, adults who got a shot of the updated Covid-19 bivalent booster were less likely to need hospital treatment than unvaccinated adults.
CDC data shows that the Covid-19 booster shot cut hospitalizations in half.
Bivalent mRNA booster doses were more effective at preventing Covid than no vaccine was.
The report found that Americans who received the boosters were 50% less likely to contract the virus than Americans who only got the primary vaccine two to four months earlier.
Unvaccinated adults were more likely to be hospitalized than adults who received the booster dose.
They were less likely to get the primary vaccine than adults who got it five to seven months earlier.
More than 44 million people are eligible for the booster, but only 14.1% of them have received it as of Wednesday.
Several GOP state officials have signed bills banning booster campaigns and vaccine mandates, despite the fact that lawmakers on the right have publicly advocated them. According to a survey released Friday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a majority of parents now believe that vaccines for other diseases should not be mandatory in school.
Along with Covid, cases of the flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are reaching record numbers. Between October 1 and December 10, there were between 15 million to 33 million cases of the flu and between 9,300 and 28,000 deaths. The triple threat of infectious viruses has put a strain on hospitals, which have become overwhelmed with patients with all three viruses.
31,800. According to data from the CDC, the number of Americans hospitalized due to Covid-19 is less than half of what it was a year ago. This week saw a three-month high in new cases in the U.S. The newer omicron subvariants are the main cause of those cases.
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