{"id":9473,"date":"2021-04-28T13:30:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T20:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=9473"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:31:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T20:31:17","slug":"effectiveness-of-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-vaccines-against-covid-19-among-hospitalized-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-january-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/effectiveness-of-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-vaccines-against-covid-19-among-hospitalized-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-january-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults Aged =65 Years \u2014 United States, January\u2013March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among adults age 65 and older (n = 417), mRNA vaccines were 94% effective against hospitalization for COVID-19 among fully vaccinated individuals, and 64% effective among partially-vaccinated individuals, according to data from US hospitals during January-March 2021. In the study, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were equally represented, and approximately half of participants were over the age of 75, which the authors argue provides evidence for the real-world effectiveness of these vaccines in older adults.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tenforde et al.\u00a0(Apr 28, 2021). Effectiveness of Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna Vaccines Against COVID-19 Among Hospitalized Adults Aged =65 Years \u2014 United States, January\u2013March 2021. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7018e1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15585\/mmwr.mm7018e1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among adults age 65 and older (n = 417), mRNA vaccines were 94% effective against hospitalization for COVID-19 among fully vaccinated individuals, and 64% effective among partially-vaccinated individuals, according to data from US hospitals during January-March 2021. In the study, Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were equally represented, and approximately half of participants were over the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/04\/28\/effectiveness-of-pfizer-biontech-and-moderna-vaccines-against-covid-19-among-hospitalized-adults-aged-65-years-united-states-january-march-2021\/\">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-9473","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\/9473","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=9473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9474,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9473\/revisions\/9474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9473"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=9473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}