The association between COVID-19 vaccination and confirmed patients with hospitalization in Omicron era: A retrospective study
Ming-Hung Chang, Kuang-Ming Liao · 2023
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Ming-Hung Chang and Kuang-Ming Liao study whether vaccination changed outcomes for patients hospitalized with the Omicron variant in Taiwan, in a 2023 paper. Taiwan's worst pandemic wave arrived in spring 2022. The team reviewed just over two hundred confirmed patients in a dedicated ward of a southern district hospital. Death rates, total stays, and ward stays were compared by vaccination status.
Overall death rates ran lower in the vaccinated group, though the gap was not statistically firm. Vaccinated patients also appeared to leave the dedicated ward sooner. Age, accumulated illness burden, and a rapid organ-failure score predicted death most strongly. In younger patients the vaccine's protection was clear. Age and comorbidity, the authors conclude, blunt the benefit.
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| CREATOR | Ming-Hung Chang, Kuang-Ming Liao |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |