{"id":1887,"date":"2022-12-20T09:02:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2022-12-20T09:03:22","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T15:03:22","slug":"coronavirus-boosters-cut-hospitalization-risk-by-at-least-50-cdc-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2022\/12\/20\/coronavirus-boosters-cut-hospitalization-risk-by-at-least-50-cdc-data-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus boosters cut hospitalization risk by at least 50%, CDC data shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/12\/16\/covid-booster-shot-tripledemic\/?utm_campaign=wp_to_your_health&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_tyh\">Washington Post<\/a>) Adults who received the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/10\/27\/coronavirus-boosters-omicron\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_3\" target=\"_blank\">updated coronavirus booster shots<\/a>&nbsp;are better protected against severe disease than those who haven\u2019t, cutting their risk of having to visit an emergency room or being hospitalized with covid-19 by 50 percent or more,according to new federal data. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm715152e1.htm?s_cid=mm715152e1_w\" target=\"_blank\">Two reports<\/a> released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give the first detailed look at how well the updated boosters from&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/11\/04\/pfizer-omicron-booster-shot\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">Pfizer&nbsp;<\/a>and&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/11\/14\/moderna-booster-shot\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">Moderna<\/a>&nbsp;protect against serious illness. Butuptake of the \u201cbivalent\u201d boosters rolled out in September&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/10\/07\/covid-booster-winter-surge\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">has been low<\/a>&nbsp;among vaccine-weary Americans<strong>,&nbsp;<\/strong>with only<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#datatracker-home\" target=\"_blank\">about 14 percent of<\/a>&nbsp;those eligible \u2014&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2022\/12\/08\/covid-booster-shot-kids\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5\" target=\"_blank\">ages 5 and older<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 having received an updated shot.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"IIR SxQaodKJPscm DxIXx  \"><!-- IIR SxQaodKJPscm DxIXx   --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Washington Post) Adults who received the&nbsp;updated coronavirus booster shots&nbsp;are better protected against severe disease than those who haven\u2019t, cutting their risk of having to visit an emergency room or being hospitalized with covid-19 by 50 percent or more,according to new federal data. Two reports released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention give [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1889,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,21,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid","category-featured","category-vaccine-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Screenshot-2022-12-20-at-10.02.48.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","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=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}