Re:Younger Americans benefit less from booster shots than ol...
by yuliyp on Saturday February 05, 2022 @07:47PM
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The story continued to talk about hospitalization and death rates in people with a standard vaccine course vs also having a booster (units in instances / 100,000 people):
They did not break down the 18-49 hospitalization stats, presumably because they are even lower than the 50-64 group (according to the CDC stats linked from the article, < 5 people / 100k in the vaccinated 18-49 group were hospitalized due to COVID-19 in December, and < 1 person / 100k across all 18-49 died from COVID-19, and that number is well under 1 in a million per week for regularly vaccinated, meaning stats are going to be fairly noisy).
65+ hospitalization: 27.4 -> 4.9 (-82%) 65+ death: 3.6 -> 0.5 (-86%)
50-64 hospitalization: 9 -> 2 (-78%) 50-64 death: 0.4 -> 0.1 (-75%)
They did not break down the 18-49 hospitalization stats, presumably because they are even lower than the 50-64 group (according to the CDC stats linked from the article, < 5 people / 100k in the vaccinated 18-49 group were hospitalized due to COVID-19 in December, and < 1 person / 100k across all 18-49 died from COVID-19, and that number is well under 1 in a million per week for regularly vaccinated, meaning stats are going to be fairly noisy).