(TJV NEWS) Key data regarding COVID deaths and hospitilizations by age group and vaccination status as released by the CDC last week.
The statistics were encapsulated by the NY Times. The data ends on December 25th 2021, which while a few months ago, still gives a good picture of the effectiveness of the vaccine and the booster shots and which age groups benefit, and which do not.
The C.D.C. did not any release data for children age 12 and older, which is interesting considering the drive to vaccine younger people. They also did not provide hospitalization numbers for adults 18 through 49,
- The rate of hospitalization among unvaccinated adults older than age 65 was 246 per 100,000 people. That rate dropped to 27.4 per 100,000 among people who were vaccinated without a booster dose, and to 4.9 among those who were vaccinated and received a booster. There were roughly 44 deaths per 100,000 unvaccinated adults 65 and older. Vaccinations dropped that number to about 3.6 deaths per 100,000, one-twelfth as much. Booster shots reduced the rate further, to about 0.5 deaths per 100,000, a figure 90 times as small.
- Among adults 50 to 64, 73 unvaccinated adults per 100,000 were hospitalized, compared with nine per 100,000 among those who were vaccinated and just two per 100,000 among those who had also received a booster shot. Vaccinations decreased the death rate to 0.4 deaths per 100,000 from 8.26 per 100,000 unvaccinated. With boosters, that number fell to 0.1 deaths per 100,000 people.
- The agency did not provide hospitalization numbers for adults 18 through 49, however, the risk of Covid death among Americans ages 18 to 49 was low. The rate was about 0.9 per 100,000 people among the unvaccinated, and plummeted to 0.03 among people who were vaccinated. With the addition of a booster, deaths were too low to measure.
