2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness, Side Effects, Safety, and More

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

How effective is the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine?

Vaccination helps prevent severe COVID-19 and the risk of emergency room visits or hospitalization due to COVID-19. Studies also show that vaccination reduces the chances that you will develop long-term effects from COVID-19 infection. While vaccines may not always prevent catching COVID-19, they will protect you from getting severely ill.

 

Are COVID-19 vaccines safe?

Yes, the 2024-2025 COVID-19 vaccine is safe. It works in the same way as the original COVID-19 vaccines and all booster shots. They are made using the same process. For all versions of COVID-19 vaccines, serious side effects have been very rare, and they are treatable. [emphasis added]

 

Can the COVID-19 vaccine cause cancer?

No. None of the vaccines interact with or alter your DNA in any way. They cannot cause cancer. There is no truth to the myth that somehow the COVID-19 vaccine could inactivate the genes that suppress tumors.

 

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[TallGuyJohninBKK]

The latest COVID vaccine effectiveness data says the current version reduces adults' age 18 and above risk of COVID-caused emergency department or urgent care visits by about one-third, compared  to those who have not received the latest version of the vaccine.

 

Likewise, the latest version of the vaccine was found to achieve a 45-46% reduction in risk of COVID-related hospitalization for senior citizens age 65 and above, versus those who have not received the latest version of the vaccine.

 

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control also found that COVID vaccines averted approximately 68,000 hospitalizations in the U.S. during the 2023–24 respiratory season.

Interim Estimates of 2024–2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Among Adults Aged ≥18 Years — VISION and IVY Networks, September 2024–January 2025

U.S. Centers for Disease Control

February 27, 2025

 

What is already known about this topic?

In June 2024, CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccination for all persons aged ≥6 months to provide additional protection against severe COVID-19.

 

What is added by this report?

Vaccine effectiveness (VE) of 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccine was 33% against COVID-19–associated emergency department (ED) or urgent care (UC) visits among adults aged ≥18 years and 45%–46% against hospitalizations among immunocompetent adults aged ≥65 years, compared with not receiving a 2024–2025 vaccine dose. VE against hospitalizations in immunocompromised adults aged ≥65 years was 40%.

 

What are the implications for public health practice?

These findings indicate that 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccination provides additional protection against COVID-19–associated ED/UC encounters and hospitalization, versus no 2024–2025 vaccination and support CDC and ACIP recommendations that all persons aged ≥6 months receive 2024–2025 COVID-19 vaccination.

 

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/74/wr/mm7406a1.htm

 

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Source: https://www.mskcc.org/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccine