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Covid booster dose critical in mitigating the health care burden of the Omicron
- newbamboo 5y agoWow for 18-49 the only “deaths while hospitalized” were in the vaccinated group. No deaths in the unvaccinated in that age group. Over all age groups paints a different picture entirely, with more deaths for unvaccinated. Glad the broke out the results by age group.
- cnelsenmilt 5y agoThere is more to it than that one bar. One example, note (from Table 1) --- Unvaccinated (n = 657) Death while hospitalized ¶¶ Denominator excludes 129 patients who remained hospitalized as of January 27, 2022 --- Approximately 20% cannot be assigned either way for this outcome yet.
- YXNjaGVyZWdlbgo 5y ago-
- wbsss4412 5y agoThey read the figure correctly. Unfortunately the study authors didn’t provide the underlying data that created the figure in a consumable format, so it’s hard to draw conclusions.
- Imnimo 5y agoTable 1 tells us that there were 6 total Omicron-period deaths while hospitalized in the fully vaccinated group. It is almost certainly a single death. It's conceivable that it's two deaths, but more than that appears mathematically impossible.
- wbsss4412 5y agoPrecisely, but what gp said is technically correct. Honestly it was fairly irresponsible for the study authors not to contextualize that graphic better.
- ameminator 5y agoHey, even if he's wrong, you're not going to convince anyone with personal attacks. I was surprised at the data too.
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoUnless I'm reading the report wrong, it's from a single hospital. We shouldn't be taking any lessons from such a limited dataset as there are far too many possible confounding factors that would be ameliorated in a larger dataset from more hospitals.
- ameminator 5y agoThat's a fair point, but the literature here does say what the original comment stated, which makes the whole reading-comprehension thing excessive.
- wbsss4412 5y agoI wouldn’t read too much into one figure that may represent 1-2 total observations (there were a grand total of 6 deaths in the vaccinated group, not broken out by age, and 14 in the unvaccinated). It doesn’t even explicitly state if they died due to Covid.
- mattparcens 5y agoMight read something from the zero unvaccinated deaths, though.
- wbsss4412 5y agoVaccination status has a ton of confounding variables, including age, immunocompromised status/other comorbidities, immunity from prior infection etc. This was at one singular hospital with unknown population level immunity. The fact that there were zero deaths in what was likely a small subgroup is not something to base a broad likelihood estimate off of.
- bsimpson 5y agoI thought we don't editorialize titles here.
- shankr 5y agoHow do you fit the huge title? > Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Periods of B.1.617.2 (Delta) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance — One Hospital, California, July 15–September 23, 2021, and December 21, 2021–January 27, 2022 I tried to pick something from their summary which might fit here > What are the implications for public health practice? > COVID-19 vaccination, particularly a booster dose, continues to be critical in mitigating the health care burden of the Omicron variant.
- peteradio 5y ago"Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Covid during Delta/Omicron waves" Does that fit?
- shankr 5y agoYeah that would but not sure why it is better than what I have already put there > editorialize: > 1 : to express an opinion in the form of an editorial. 2 : to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts. I didn't add any personal opinion but picked up directly from the summary itself.
- peteradio 5y agoIt doesn't really capture what the paper encompasses, it highlights a specific part as if that was even a primary observation. The one I propose is dull as hell but its captures the extent of the study mostly trimming from the original and substituting synonyms for character constraint.