Thread by @sailorrooscout

This picture paints about 3000 words.

🔴 Vaccinated

🔵 Unvaccinated

⚫️ Vaccine effectiveness versus hospitalization continues to remain strong now that Omicron is dominant in New York State

While I cannot sit and write 3000, here’s a few: Vaccines work. The COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective at preventing serious illness, hospitalization, AND death.

Comparing the rates of COVID-19 hospitalization between fully-vaccinated and unvaccinated people using age-adjusted vaccine effectiveness, fully-vaccinated New Yorkers remain strongly protected against COVID-19 hospitalization.

Across the time period of analysis, fully-vaccinated New Yorkers had between an 90.2% and 95.7% lower chance of being hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to unvaccinated New Yorkers.

In this analysis, fully-vaccinated is defined as an individual who:
•Has received one of the three vaccines currently authorized by the FDA: Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Janssen/Johnson & Johnson.
•Is 14 days or more past the final dose of their original 2-dose

(Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna) or 1-dose (Janssen/Johnson & Johnson) series.
•Fully-vaccinated people may have received additional or booster doses, which are NOT specifically accounted for in this analysis.

•For the purposes of this analysis, cases are defined at the person-level (1 case per person) and hospital admissions are defined at the event-level (multiple admissions with COVID-19 possible per person).

This directly comes from New York State COVID-19 Breakthrough Data for current estimates of cases and hospitalizations by vaccine status, and vaccine effectiveness. THIS IS PER 100,000. coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-break…

Again, that black line above is vaccine effectiveness versus hospitalization, which CONTINUES to remain strong even now that Omicron is dominant in New York State.

time.com/6138566/pandem…