Tucked away inside Slide number 12 of the CDC’s recent presentation on vaccine efficacy is a truly startling datapoint. It showed that, in the most recent period of time, the efficacy of the vaccine actually turned negative (in terms of hospitalizations). Meaning: if 2 people contracted covid, and one of them was vaccinated, while the other was unvaccinated — the vaccinated individual would be more at risk of being hospitalized.
8% more at risk to be exact.
Furthermore, the data showed that the bivalent booster was able to alleviate this effect for a period of 3 months. However, after 3 months, the boosted individuals returned to negative 8% efficacy (when compared to the unvaccinated cohort)….