{"id":11491,"date":"2026-02-18T19:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11491"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:02:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:02:01","slug":"covid-19-booster-reduced-hospitalizations-mortality-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/02\/18\/covid-19-booster-reduced-hospitalizations-mortality-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Booster Reduced Hospitalizations, Mortality Risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/respiratory-therapy.com\/disorders-diseases\/infectious-diseases\/coronavirus\/covid-19-booster-reduced-hospitalizations-mortality-risks\/\">Respiratory Therapy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"h-booster-vaccines-reduced-the-risk-of-covid-19-related-hospitalization-and-death-according-to-a-new-study-of-over-3-million-uk-adults\"><em>Booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID\u201119\u2013related hospitalization and death, according to a new study of over 3 million UK adults.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Boosters Halve Severe COVID-19 Risk<\/strong>: A large study led by the University of Bristol and University of Oxford found that booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID-19 hospitalization and death by about 50% among adults aged 50 and older.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Moderna and Pfizer Boosters Perform Similarly<\/strong>: Researchers analyzing health records through NHS England found comparable protection from boosters produced by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, though protection was strongest in the first 70 days and gradually declined over time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Real-World Evidence Confirms Booster Effectiveness<\/strong>: Data from over 3 million adults showed significantly lower hospitalization and death rates among boosted individuals, reinforcing booster vaccination as a critical tool to prevent severe COVID-19 outcomes in older populations.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/respiratory-therapy.com\/disorders-diseases\/infectious-diseases\/coronavirus\/covid-19-booster-reduced-hospitalizations-mortality-risks\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory Therapy Booster vaccines reduced the risk of COVID\u201119\u2013related hospitalization and death, according to a new study of over 3 million UK adults. Continue reading<\/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-11491","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\/11491","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=11491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11492,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11491\/revisions\/11492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}