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 95.8% LOWER chance of being hospitalized with COVID-19, compared to unvaccinated New Yorkers.

Effectiveness against laboratory-confirmed infections is high (~80%), but lower than against COVID-19 hospitalization. THIS is why it is always important to look at real-world data outside of lab collected data.

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).

“Please note that grey shading has been applied to recent weeks for which data are still accruing, with a darker grey representing data with the largest amount of uncertainty. Estimates in darker grey are likely an undercount and are subject to most change."

Also, for those who are asking about Israel, as I am usually asked on every post of mine. The data STILL supports vaccines. Keep in mind Israel is 66% fully vaccinated. Please see: haaretz.com/israel-news/om…

“The ongoing >89% effectiveness against hospitalization is consistent with the results of the original vaccine clinical trials’ results, which showed protection from severe COVID-19 disease at these levels. Taken together these results demonstrate that vaccines continue to be-

highly-effective at protecting New York residents from infection and hospitalization with COVID-19. Put simply, these outcomes are occurring among vaccinated people, but at levels far lower than among unvaccinated people, because vaccines work.”

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