Italy says mRNA COVID jab effectiveness stable after 7 months, but not for all

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Seven months after the second dose, there is no reduction in the efficacy of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines in the general population in Italy, while a slight decline is seen for some specific groups.

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It said that in the general population, effectiveness against infection after seven months remained at 89%, while against hospitalisation and death, this time six months after the second dose, it remained at 96% and 99% respectively. The ISS study did not make reference to the study in the Lancet, which focused on electronic health records of 3.4 million members of a U.S. healthcare provider, but did not include data on adherence to mask guidelines and occupation, which could have affected testing frequency and exposure.

In people with co-morbidities but who are not necessarily immunodepressed, the study reported a reduction in protection from infection which declined from 75% 28 days after the second dose to 52% after about seven months.

 

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