{"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

“Durability was better for preventing critical COVID-19 disease<\/a>, at 50% at four to six months after vaccination.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vaccine was found to be effective for longer periods in people without immunocompromising conditions (weakened immune systems). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These data support updated recommendations allowing additional optional bivalent COVID-19 vaccine doses for certain high-risk populations,” the CDC stated in a discussion of the study findings on its website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“All eligible persons should stay up to date with recommended COVID-19 vaccines.” Despite the CDC\u2019s September 2022 recommendation that all vaccinated people 12 years and older should receive a booster dose, the vast majority of Americans have not received it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adults who aren\u2019t current on their COVID-19 vaccine booster doses 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). The study spanned multiple states and examined more than 85,000 hospitalizations of people with “COVID-like illness.” Dr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":754,"featured_media":11882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cww7news.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/vaccinesalterdna-700x318.jpg?fit=700%2C318&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/754"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37924,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37923\/revisions\/37924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cww7news.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}