{"id":37923,"date":"2023-06-05T15:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/?p=37923"},"modified":"2023-06-05T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T22:03:05","slug":"most-us-adults-are-declining-covid-boosters-as-cdc-warns-of-health-risks-relatively-little-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/most-us-adults-are-declining-covid-boosters-as-cdc-warns-of-health-risks-relatively-little-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Most US adults are declining COVID boosters as CDC warns of health risks: ‘Relatively little protection’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Adults who aren\u2019t current on their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses<\/u><\/a> may have “relatively little remaining protection” against hospitalization compared to those who haven\u2019t been vaccinated at all, suggests a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n The study spanned multiple states and examined more than 85,000 hospitalizations of people with “COVID-like illness.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dr. Shana Johnson, a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician\u00a0in Scottsdale, Arizona<\/u><\/a>, was not involved in the CDC study but reviewed its findings.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news, Johnson said, is that the bivalent mRNA vaccine protects against the most severe COVID-19 outcomes<\/u><\/a>, including hospitalization and critical disease (ICU admission and death), Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The not-so-good news: The durability or duration of protection was not great, she noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “For adults, the vaccine effectiveness dropped from 62% at two months after vaccination to 24% at four to six months for protection against COVID-19 hospitalization,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n