Of teens with COVID-19 who end up in ICUs, almost all are unvaccinated: research

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Researchers found that 96% of the adolescents hospitalized with COVID-19 and 99% of those who received life support had not been fully vaccinated.

were unvaccinated in a study that bolsters the use of the Pfizer Inc.-BioNTech SE shot in youths.

While adolescents can develop severe COVID-19 complications, it’s relatively rare that they do, making it harder to study vaccine efficacy than among older adults, and leading to some controversy about the use of the shots in younger people. For example, the trial data Pfizer submitted for authorization of its shot for 12- to 15-year-olds didn’t include enough cases to assess efficacy in preventing severe COVID-19.

The results show that “nearly all hospitalizations and deaths in this population could have been prevented by vaccination,” Vanderbilt University Medical Center pediatrics professor Kathryn Edwards wrote in an editorial accompanying the study.

 

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