COVID shots more protective than past infection, study shows
ABC News
Health officials say they have more evidence that vaccinations can offer better protection against COVID-19 than natural immunity from a prior infection
NEW YORK -- Health officials on Friday offered more evidence that vaccinations offer better protection against COVID-19 than immunity from a prior infection.
Unvaccinated people who had been infected months earlier were 5 times more likely to get COVID-19 than fully vaccinated people who didn't have a prior infection, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded in a new study.
“These data show, pretty strongly, that the vaccines are more protective against symptomatic COVID,” said Dr. Mike Saag, an infectious disease expert at the University of Alabama at Birmingham who was not involved in the study.
The study looked at data from nearly 190 hospitals in nine states. The researchers counted about 7,000 adult patients who were hospitalized this year with respiratory illnesses or symptoms similar to those of COVID-19.
