{"id":10561,"date":"2025-10-15T18:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10561"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T23:59:17","slug":"veterans-study-finds-updated-covid-19-shot-reduces-hospital-visits-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/15\/veterans-study-finds-updated-covid-19-shot-reduces-hospital-visits-and-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans study finds updated COVID-19 shot reduces hospital visits and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2025-10-veterans-covid-shot-hospital-death.html\">Medical Xpress<\/a> Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St. Louis reports that the 2024\u20132025\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccine\u00a0was associated with lower risks of\u00a0COVID-19\u2013related emergency visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in a national cohort of U.S. veterans. The&nbsp;pandemic&nbsp;is not over, but conditions have shifted greatly. Since the initial outbreak spread around the world,&nbsp;SARS-CoV-2 has accumulated mutations that alter its severity, while the population has gained immunity from repeated infections and vaccinations have reduced severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public uncertainty about the continued value of getting the annual COVID-19 vaccination has risen steadily. By late December 2024, adult COVID-19 vaccination fell to approximately 21%, while influenza vaccination remained at 42%.<br><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"G T zqy\"><!-- G T zqy --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical Xpress Veterans Research and Education Foundation of St. Louis reports that the 2024\u20132025\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0vaccine\u00a0was associated with lower risks of\u00a0COVID-19\u2013related emergency visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in a national cohort of U.S. veterans. The&nbsp;pandemic&nbsp;is not over, but conditions have shifted greatly. Since the initial outbreak spread around the world,&nbsp;SARS-CoV-2 has accumulated mutations that alter its severity, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10562,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10561\/revisions\/10562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}