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COVID vax led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations

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Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

October 9, 2025

 

"Oct 8 (Reuters) - Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday. Vaccinated veterans who developed COVID after receiving the 2024-2025 boosters from Moderna (MRNA.O) or Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N) were also less likely to visit the emergency room for complications, compared with unvaccinated COVID patients, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

 

The researchers tracked 164,132 veterans who simultaneously received a 2024-2025 COVID booster and a flu shot, and 131,839 who received only the flu vaccine. The vast majority of participants were at least 45 years old, and virtually all who received a COVID shot got one of the two approved mRNA-based vaccines that have faced renewed scrutiny from U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has questioned their safety and efficacy, contrary to scientific evidence.
 
"The vaccines are still providing additional, not perfect, protection against meaningful outcomes, including hospitalization and death, even though such severe outcomes are now much less common overall than early in the pandemic," said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown Medical Center in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the study.
 
Over six months, veterans who received the COVID and flu vaccines had a 29% decrease in emergency department visits, a 39% decrease in hospitalizations, and a 64% decrease in deaths compared to those who received only the flu vaccine.''
 
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Updated COVID shot led to less severe illness, fewer hospitalizations last year, US study finds

October 9, 2025

 

"Oct 8 (Reuters) - Last year's updated COVID-19 vaccines helped prevent severe outcomes including hospitalizations and deaths, according to data from a large study of U.S. military veterans published on Wednesday. Vaccinated veterans who developed COVID after receiving the 2024-2025 boosters from Moderna (MRNA.O) or Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N) were also less likely to visit the emergency room for complications, compared with unvaccinated COVID patients, researchers reported in The New England Journal of Medicine.

 

The researchers tracked 164,132 veterans who simultaneously received a 2024-2025 COVID booster and a flu shot, and 131,839 who received only the flu vaccine. The vast majority of participants were at least 45 years old, and virtually all who received a COVID shot got one of the two approved mRNA-based vaccines that have faced renewed scrutiny from U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has questioned their safety and efficacy, contrary to scientific evidence.
 
"The vaccines are still providing additional, not perfect, protection against meaningful outcomes, including hospitalization and death, even though such severe outcomes are now much less common overall than early in the pandemic," said Dr. Jesse Goodman of Georgetown Medical Center in Washington, D.C., who was not involved in the study.
 
Over six months, veterans who received the COVID and flu vaccines had a 29% decrease in emergency department visits, a 39% decrease in hospitalizations, and a 64% decrease in deaths compared to those who received only the flu vaccine.''
 
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Sounds credible, if one actually believes a vaxx can prevent/cure everything it is supposed to.

 

But contrast the above, to that of 'An inconvenient Study' that @johng posted recently. 

 

Could be a different world.

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"We conducted an observational study that used the electronic health records of the Department of Veterans Affairs to evaluate the effectiveness of the 2024–2025 Covid-19 vaccine among veterans who received the Covid-19 and influenza vaccines on the same day (164,132 participants) and in an active-comparator group of veterans who received the influenza vaccine only (131,839 participants), between September 3 and December 31, 2024. Participants were followed for 180 days or until the occurrence of an outcome, whichever came first."

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[summary of reported data, not verbatim quotations]
At 6 months of follow-up, the estimated vaccine effectiveness was:
--29.3% against Covid-19–associated emergency department visits
--39.2% against Covid-19–associated hospitalizations
--64.0% against Covid-19–associated deaths.
 

Conclusions

"In this national cohort of U.S. veterans, the receipt of the 2024–2025 Covid-19 vaccine was associated with decreased risks of severe clinical outcomes. (Funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs.)"
 
 
The authors noted in their commentary that the raw numbers of reduced deaths and hospitalizations in their study were relatively small, but that those benefits nonetheless came among a study population that already had prior immunity levels based both on past COVID infections and prior vaccinations, and the milder illnesses typically associated with recent COVID variants.
 
 
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In the trashcan with that garbage study!  

Two reasons: 

1 - The authors compared 2 groups, one group that did had the Covid-19 booster and the Flu jab on the same day, with a group that only received the Flu jab.  They admit that the actual numbers of reduced death and hospitalization were relatively small. 

> As both jabs are poisonous, they are comparing a light dose with a heavy dose of poison.  The obvious thing to do would have been to include a 3rd group of non-vaccinated veterans.  But doing so would probably result in another 'inconvenient study' (like the long-term study on health outcomes of vaxxes/unvaxxed children by the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, MI.)  

2 - One only has to look at the longer-term excess mortality trends (e.g. the off-the chart current excess mortality figures in Singapore) to understand that the Vax-poison jabs have short-, mid- and long-term adverse effects.  And the long-term ones like cancer and heart failures are unlikely to manifest in the 180 days of follow-up on the recipients of these shots. 

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Do young people need Covid boosters? Research shows more protection for ages 65 and older

Overall effectiveness of the Covid vaccines for all adults is similar to that of the annual flu shot, according to a large study of veterans.
 
Oct. 9, 2025
 
"Covid vaccines continue to protect against serious illness and death, especially for people ages 65 and older, although the benefits for younger adults are not as clear, according to a large new study of veterans.
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'Still measurable benefit'

Bill Hanage, a professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School, said that because so many people already have immunity against Covid, it can be harder to pinpoint vaccine effectiveness now. Still, he was pleased to see some protection for all age groups.

 

“The core message of this is that even now, with all of this vaccine-induced immunity and convalescent immunity floating around, there is still a measurable benefit,” he said.

 

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CNBC

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/covid-booster-vaccine-adults-65-over-virus-protection-shot-new-study-rcna236148

 

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