Getting fully vaccinated massively reduces your chance of dying from COVID-19, a new real-world study suggests

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COVID-19 accounted for 0.8% of deaths among fully vaccinated people in England, data shows.

In unvaccinated people, COVID-19 accounted for 37% of deaths in the same period.

The data is more evidence that vaccines significantly reduce the chance of dying from COVID-19.

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Getting a COVID-19 vaccine significantly reduces the chance of dying from the coronavirus, real-world data from England suggests.

Figures from the UK's Office of National Statistics (ONS) released Monday found that 0.8% of deaths in fully-vaccinated people were linked to COVID-19 between January and July. These figures covered people who died 21 or more days after the second dose.

For comparison, roughly 37% of deaths in unvaccinated people "involved COVID-19" during the same time period, the data showed.

In total, 57,263 fully vaccinated people in England died at least 21 days after their second vaccine dose, and just 458 deaths "involved" COVID-19. Over the same period, there were 38,964 COVID-19-related deaths in unvaccinated people.

—Office for National Statistics (ONS) (@ONS) September 13, 2021

Professor Kevin McConway, professor of applied statistics at the Open University, said in a statement to the Science Media Center on Monday that the data showed vaccines were effective at preventing death from COVID-19, but that they weren't "perfect."

"Some people do still die of COVID-19 even though they are fully vaccinated," he said. "No vaccine is 100% effective," he said, adding that it was important to get both doses.

The ONS data came from census and family doctor health records, considered to be representative of 79% of people aged 10 or older living in England. It didn't specifically look at variants.

The highly infectious Delta, which can partially avoid the immune response, became dominant in the UK in June.

McConway said the data was evidence that vaccinated people had less chance of dying from COVID-19 than unvaccinated people, but that it couldn't be used to determine vaccine effectiveness. The population in the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups could differ in important ways — high-risk groups were prioritized for vaccines, for example, he said.

US data released on Friday showed vaccinated Americans were 11 times less likely than unvaccinated Americans to die from COVID-19.

ChuckMoody on September 14th, 2021 at 18:53 UTC »

What about the side effects? Ive read that everybody who has taken the vaccine will be dead in 100 years

BlackDays999 on September 14th, 2021 at 14:37 UTC »

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SalokinSekwah on September 14th, 2021 at 13:51 UTC »

The fact this even newsworthy, that vaccines work, let alone worth upvoting for the chance some schmuck reads it and accepts the data, thus potentially saving their life and others, is mind-imploding