{"id":160354,"date":"2023-03-15T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/multi-state-study-reports-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-protective-during-omicron-ba-4-ba-5-predominance"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T23:25:24","slug":"multi-state-study-reports-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-protective-during-omicron-ba-4-ba-5-predominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/multi-state-study-reports-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-protective-during-omicron-ba-4-ba-5-predominance","title":{"rendered":"Multi-state study reports COVID-19 mRNA vaccines protective during omicron BA.4\/BA.5 predominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/multi-state-study-reports-covid-19-mrna-vaccines-protective-during-omicron-ba-4-ba-5-predominance2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A multi-state study from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) VISION Network has found that first-generation COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were associated with protection against COVID-19 during periods of omicron BA.4\/BA.5 predominance.<\/p>\n<p>The new analysis found that mRNA vaccines were protective against COVID-19-associated hospitalization and ICU admission or in-hospital death and noted less <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/severe+disease\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">severe disease<\/a> during BA.4\/BA.5 predominance compared to earlier omicron variants.<\/p>\n<p>During BA.4\/BA.5 predominance, estimated 3-dose vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization was 68 percent between 7-and 119-days post-vaccination. Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization decreased to 36 percent by 120 days or more post-vaccination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A multi-state study from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s (CDC) VISION Network has found that first-generation COVID-19 mRNA vaccines were associated with protection against COVID-19 during periods of omicron BA.4\/BA.5 predominance. The new analysis found that mRNA vaccines were protective against COVID-19-associated hospitalization and ICU admission or in-hospital death and noted less [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}