{"id":9389,"date":"2021-04-23T09:40:10","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T16:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9389"},"modified":"2021-04-28T09:40:52","modified_gmt":"2021-04-28T16:40:52","slug":"real-world-effectiveness-of-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-against-hospitalizations-and-deaths-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/real-world-effectiveness-of-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-against-hospitalizations-and-deaths-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Real World Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines against Hospitalizations and Deaths in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed]<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> A large, retrospective cohort analysis of patients enrolled in a Houston, TX healthcare network (N=91,134) found that vaccination with 2 doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization by 96% and COVID-19 associated deaths by 99%. Additionally, the study found that persons with partial immunization, (defined as 2 weeks following the 1<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dose through 7 days following the 2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">nd<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> dose) had a 77% lower risk of hospitalization and a 64% lower risk of death. Effectiveness did not differ significantly across populations defined by age, race\/ethnicity, area deprivation index, or comorbidities. The authors note that this is the largest cohort vaccine effectiveness study in a US population published to date.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Vahidy et al. (Apr 23, 2021). Real World Effectiveness of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines against Hospitalizations and Deaths in the United States. Pre-print downloaded Apr 23 from <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.21.21255873\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1101\/2021.04.21.21255873<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Pre-print, not peer-reviewed] A large, retrospective cohort analysis of patients enrolled in a Houston, TX healthcare network (N=91,134) found that vaccination with 2 doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccine reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization by 96% and COVID-19 associated deaths by 99%. Additionally, the study found that persons with partial immunization, (defined&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/23\/real-world-effectiveness-of-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-against-hospitalizations-and-deaths-in-the-united-states\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[142],"topic":[31],"class_list":["post-9389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-vaccine","topic-vaccines-and-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9390,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9389\/revisions\/9390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9389"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}