The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released data suggesting those who received the COVID-19 vaccine are more likely to be hospitalized.
Data shows the vaccine’s effectiveness against hospitalization is negative 8%.
An updated bivalent vaccine is initially 29% effective against hospitalization but falls to negative 8% after 89 days.
The estimates were from non-immunocompromised adults between January 23 to May 24.
“We’re concerned that we may have another wave of COVID-19 during the time when the virus has further evolved, immunity of the population has waned further, and we move indoors for wintertime,” according to Food and Drug Administration official Dr. Peter Marks.
Reporting from The Epoch Times:
Protection against critical illness from a bivalent was 58 percent initially and only dropped to 48 percent, according to data from VISION during XBB’s predominance. There weren’t enough critical cases in the Investigating Respiratory Viruses in the Acutely Ill network to provide estimates of protection against critical illness, [Dr. Ruth Link-Gelles of the CDC] said. She said that patterns of waning with the bivalent vaccines “have been very similar to what we knew from the monovalent vaccine” and that U.S. officials do not make vaccine policy decisions “based solely on vaccine effectiveness data.”
