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Over 7000 cases of hospital admission or death because of covid-19 could have been avoided during just one wave of the pandemic if everyone in the UK had received the full number of recommended SARS-CoV-2 vaccination doses, a study of the population has reported.1
To look at the problem of undervaccination during the pandemic, researchers from the Health Data Research UK (HDR UK) consortium conducted the country’s first whole population level analysis involving individual level health data.
Focusing on the summer of 2022 (June to September), they found that undervaccination across the four nations was associated with a higher risk of severe covid-19 outcomes, especially in people 75 and over and those aged 16 to 74.
During the study period the recommended doses …
Between a third and a half of the populations of the four UK nations had not had the recommended number of COVID vaccinations and boosters by summer 2022, according to the first research study to look at COVID-19 vaccine coverage of the entire UK population.