Friday, March 11, 2022

RISK OF HOSPITALISATION FOR UNVACCINATED UP TO 7 TIMES GREATER

 Filenews 10 March 2022



From four to seven times greater is the risk of hospitalization of people without a history of vaccination compared to people who have a history of vaccination.

According to data from the Ministry of Health, as of March 8, 2022, 55% of hospitalized patients have no history of vaccination. Please note that the data do not include post COVID patients who are still hospitalized.

Current hospitalizations by history of vaccination (08/03/2022 - not including post covid patients who are still hospitalized)

 

%

No history of vaccination

 

55%

Partially vaccinated*

 

8%

Fully vaccinated**

 

2%

Fully vaccinated and with a booster dose – see Table 2 (80.5% are for people over the age of 70)

 

35%

Total

 

100%

*Partially vaccinated are those who had received the first dose of the dosing vaccine, those who had received the two doses and 14 days have not elapsed since the second dose, those who had taken the JJ and no 14-day period has elapsed, as well as those who had received two doses and 5 months have elapsed since the second dose and have not proceeded with the booster dose.

**Fully vaccinated are those who have received both doses of  two-dose vaccine and 14 days have elapsed since the second dose, as well as 150 days have not elapsed since the second dose (the same applies to the single-dose JJ).