Vaccinated people are less likely to be hospitalized and more likely to survive if hospitalized, study shows
Vaccinated people are less likely to be hospitalized and more likely to survive if hospitalized, study shows Recent preliminary research from India may offer more good news for people who have received covid-19 vaccines, even against the more virulent Delta variant. The study found that fully vaccinated people who ended up hospitalized (itself an uncommon risk among the vaccinated) were less likely to get sick and die than those who were not vaccinated and were in the hospital. However, partially vaccinated persons appeared to have a similar risk of severe illness and death as the unvaccinated once hospitalized. The study is a preprint published last month on the medRxiv website . The researchers looked at the clinical outcomes of more than 1,000 hospitalized patients in the city of Hyderabad, India, documented between April 24 and May 31 of this year. The researchers say that more than 90% of the cases involved the Delta variant of the coronavirus, according to genetic sequencing...