{"id":976,"date":"2023-02-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/?p=976"},"modified":"2023-02-26T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T12:42:00","slug":"impact-of-vaccination-on-covid-19-hospital-admissions-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/medical-centre\/2023\/02\/26\/impact-of-vaccination-on-covid-19-hospital-admissions-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Impact of vaccination on Covid-19 hospital admissions in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our new article in the <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/eprint\/GXPCNXUJ5TKEKB4BIN3Y\/full\">Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0examines the impact of vaccination on hospital admissions for Covid-19 in England during 2021. Covid-19 vaccination substantially reduced the risk of hospital admission, particularly in people who received three doses.\u00a0 We used data over a whole calendar year covering multiple variants of SARS-CoV-2, variable case rates and changing vaccine uptake.<\/p>\n<p>This provides a population-level overview of the impact of vaccination that is not possible from studies over a shorter period. Using primary diagnosis of Covid-19 as the inclusion criteria increases the specificity of our study by excluding those co-incidentally Covid-19 positive but admitted for another reason. We excluded \u201cghost patients\u201d that can bias the estimates of vaccine effectiveness.<\/p>\n<p>We report a dose-dependent effect of vaccination, as well as waning of the effectiveness of each vaccination dose, highlighting the value of booster vaccinations. 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