CDC: Nursing home residents who received booster are 10 times less likely to get COVID-19
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New data from the CDC shows nursing home residents who are fully vaccinated and have received a booster dose are 10 times less likely to become infected than those who did not get a booster dose.
"As expected, nursing home residents who are unvaccinated have the highest weekly COVID-19 case rates, which increased from 3.4 to 8.8 per thousand nursing home residents between Oct. 31 to Dec. 5," she said, noting that the agency was starting to see case increases for those who are fully vaccinated, which is "likely due to the waning of vaccine protection over time."
"But the good news is that these data show that nursing home residents who are fully vaccinated and have received a booster dose have a 10 times lower rate of getting SARS-CoV-2 in comparison to those residents who have only received a primary vaccination series or are unvaccinated," the Walensky said.