\u0027Yes, Omicron changed the picture. But the data are clear: Unvaccinated die more, and are hospitalized more, and have worse outcomes\u0027
The head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine operations told STAT’s Helen Branswell that, given the pace at which SARS-CoV-2 is mutating, more boosters are entirely possible.Article content
“I’m seeing the push back and mocking everywhere,” University of Alberta law professor Timothy Caulfield said of the response on social media to Walensky’s COVID diagnosis.Article content “And, yes, Omicron changed the picture. But the data are clear: Unvaccinated die more, and are hospitalized more, and have worse outcomes.”found that unvaccinated 12- to 64-year-olds were almost twice as likely to get COVID and three times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID than people with at least two doses of vaccine. In the 65-plus age group, the unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the immunized to die.
But questions linger about who needs one of the updated boosters. Dr. Paul Offit, an infectious diseases specialist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a vaccine adviser to the FDA, has argued that bivalent boosters make sense for those most likely to get hospitalized: the elderly , people with serious medical conditions like chronic lung disease “where even a mild infection could land them in the hospital,” and the immunocompromised.
Millions of infections and new mutations into the pandemic, “and we’re sort of playing catch up,” Bowdish said “We’re trying to provide the best protection we possibly can with vaccines that these viruses have evolved to evade.”
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