Dr. Howard Smith Oncall

  Vidcast:  https://youtu.be/g1D2et9iod0   Initial studies of the Moderna and Pfizer CoVid vaccines pegged them at about 95% effective at preventing CoVid infections and close to 100% effective at preventing CoVid hospitalization and deaths.  A Yale-led study now reports real world effects of the vaccines on hospitalizations and death.   A complete mRNA vaccine course was 96% effective at preventing hospitalization and a partial one-shot course was 77% effective.  The complete vaccination course was 98.7% effective at preventing death due to CoVid while partial immunization afforded on 64.2% protection.  The data held for all ages, genders, and ethnic groups.   This is yet another study that verifies the remarkable effectiveness of the mRNA vaccines.   https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.21.21255873v1.full.pdf+html   #CoVid #mrna #vaccine #hospitalization #death