In Great Britain, insufficient corona vaccinations led to more than 7,000 deaths or hospitalizations due to severe cases of Covid-19 in the summer of 2022. This is evident from a large, current study.
In Great Britain, insufficient corona vaccinations led to more than 7,000 deaths or admissions due to severe cases of Covid-19 in the summer of 2022. This is evident from a current study.
The authors of the first study among the entire British population, published on Tuesday in the medical journal ‘The Lancet’, emphasized that their findings demonstrate the importance of booster vaccinations against the sometimes life-threatening respiratory diseases.
Research shows that adults are hesitant to take vaccines
After corona vaccines were approved, more than 90 percent of adults in Great Britain were vaccinated. But as the wave of corona infections subsided in the summer of 2022, vaccination fatigue set in, according to the study: from June to September 2022, around 44 percent of adults in Britain no longer had sufficient protection against corona.
Based on National Health Service (NHS) data and model calculations, the study authors estimate that if the entire adult population had been adequately vaccinated, there would have been a total of 7,180 fewer coronavirus hospitalizations and deaths over the summer. of 2022. That would be almost 20 percent of the 40,000 hospital admissions and deaths due to corona infections that summer.
The study evaluated anonymised and encrypted health data from everyone in Britain aged six and over. It was the first study on the island with this enormous dataset. The adults who were not adequately vaccinated tended to be younger, non-white, poorer men who had had little previous illness.
“Being properly vaccinated is important”
Health Data Research UK senior scientist Cathie Sudlow told a news conference that the research she led shows that “being fully and appropriately vaccinated is good for individuals and good for society as a whole.” The World Health Organization (WHO) warned last week that transmission of the coronavirus had increased again due to the Christmas and New Year’s Eve celebrations.
The study authors advocated using the data for other studies, such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease. Co-author Aziz Sheikh from the University of Edinburgh emphasized that Britain is particularly suitable for such research in the general population because the NHS records “virtually every interaction” in the healthcare system.
Source: Krone
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