Study shows vaccination impact on covid deaths


A study by the Valencian government has indicated that the vaccine has slowed down the sixth wave of covid with 90% fewer deaths. The study also demonstrated that non-immunized people have twice the risk of being hospitalized in an Intensive Care Unit and that the risk of death is three times greater without inoculation.
The study, undertaken by the General Directorate of Analysis and Public Policies of the Generalitat Valenciana showed that vaccination against the coronavirus has reduced the number of hospitalisations and ICU admissions by 75% and deaths by 90%.
The results of the study were presented to government on Saturday and show that the number of cases requiring hospitalisation has changed dramatically under the vaccine rollout in the community.
According to the study, “people with COVID-19 who are not vaccinated or have incomplete vaccination suffer twice the risk of being hospitalized”. In addition, the risk of death is multiplied by three in the case of unvaccinated patients. Figures were gathered over the summer months when the vaccination programme in the Valencian Community was at a very advanced stage. Researchers compared figures to an earlier wave of covid, in early 2021, when most people were not yet vaccinated.

The main conclusion, said researchers, is that the vaccines are proving to be very effective in terms of the severity of cases. All indicators of ‘severity’, such as hospitalization, ICU admission and ultimately, death, show an indisputable decrease. Researchers also noted that vaccinated people between 60 and 80 years of age have a risk of death that is 14 times lower than those in the same age group who are not vaccinated. In those over 30 years of age, the risk of hospitalization is 8 times lower for those who have been vaccinated.
Given the data, the general director of Analysis and Public Policies of the Valencian Government, Ana Berenguer, remarked that “one of the main conclusions is that vaccines are proving to be very effective in reducing the severity of cases.”
“Vaccines are undoubtedly the best tool we have in the fight against covid,” she concluded.
826,510 people have already received a booster dose in the Community – 308,715 of them in the province of Alicante. In addition, 19,754 people have been immunized at drop-in vaccination points throughout the Valencian region in recent weeks.