Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world French study of 23 million people

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in a huge real-world study of 23 million people Real-world data from France shows COVID-19 vaccines give strong protection that lasts at least five months in people over 50. Dr. Catherine Schuster-Bruce YahooNews

Vaccines cut the risk of severe COVID-19 by at least 90% in people who are 50 or older, a real-world study of nearly 23 million people has found.

The study, conducted by the French government-backed scientific organization Epi-Phare, found that five months after vaccination, people aged over 75 were 94% less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people in the same age group.

The reduction in risk for those aged 50 to 74 was even higher, at 97%, the study authors said in a press release published Monday.

"This means that those who are vaccinated are nine times less at risk of being hospitalized or dying from COVID-19 than those who have not been vaccinated," the epidemiologist Mahmoud Zureik, who oversaw the research, told Agence France-Presse, per The Guardian. ...