01-03-2021, 17:35
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laeva recumbens anguis
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Re: Coronavirus
Covid vaccines cut risk of serious illness by 80%
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-56240220
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A single shot of either the Oxford-AstraZeneca or the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid jab reduces the chance of needing hospital treatment by more than 80%, an analysis in England shows.
The Public Health England data - based on people testing positive for Covid in hospital - follows similarly 'spectacular' results in Scotland.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the findings were "very strong".
More than 20 million people have had a first dose of Covid vaccine in the UK.
That's more than a third of the adult population.
Mr Hancock said the data, which will be published later, shows the AstraZeneca vaccine was slightly more effective than the Pfizer jab.
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Excellent news.
Source - https://www.gov.uk/government/news/n...n-older-adults
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Today Public Health England (PHE) has submitted a pre-print of a real-world study that shows that both the Pfizer and Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines are highly effective in reducing COVID-19 infections among older people aged 70 years and over. Since January, protection against symptomatic COVID, 4 weeks after the first dose, ranged between 57 and 61% for one dose of Pfizer and between 60 and 73% for the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine...
... In the over 80s, data suggest that a single dose of either vaccine is more than 80% effective at preventing hospitalisation, around 3 to 4 weeks after the jab. There is also evidence for the Pfizer vaccine, which suggests it leads to an 83% reduction in deaths from COVID-19.
The data also shows symptomatic infections in over 70s decreasing from around 3 weeks after one dose of both vaccines.
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