New Covid-19 Cases Dramatically Fell in Nursing Homes After Vaccination

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Source: New York Times

Nursing home residents, considered among the most vulnerable to Covid-19, appear to receive significant protection from vaccination, according to new research published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

In a letter to the editor, the researchers said that the use of vaccinations also appeared to protect nursing home residents who did not get the immunization. That finding suggests, researchers said, that unvaccinated residents benefit when others around them receive the shot.

“These findings show the real world effectiveness” of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines “in a vulnerable nursing home population,” the researchers wrote.

The findings conform to recent guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about the protective benefit of vaccination. The federal agency, in hoping to encourage widespread immunizations, has said that those who get inoculated face sharply reduced risk, but considerable risk remains for those who do not.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/new-covid-19-cases-dramatically-fell-in-nursing-homes-after-vaccination/ar-BB1gV1ZB?li=BBnb7Kz

[Skittles]

1. but people are still masking in nursing homes

so there is that

[FarPoint]

2. NO harm from wearing a mask...

We have not reached heard immunity..not yet...

[Skittles]

3. you got that right

I think it's way too early and apparently many people agree, I was at Trader Joe's and the only person unmasked there was some asshole talking way too loudly on his cell phone.

[Yavin4]

9. The harm from wearing a mask is the belief that it protects you as well as the vaccine.

It does not protect you as well. Not nearly as well. You have to depend on compliance and enforcement of masking at all times in order for it to work. Masks were a compromise mitigation measure to quarantining which is as effective as a the vaccine.

[FarPoint]

12. True enough...

America never really got past the true clinical aspects of a surgical mask verses N-95....but then, in the long run, it really did help mitigate the spread of covid-19...I was surprised overall...

[Yavin4]

13. "it really did help mitigate the spread of covid-19". Not really.

We had severe spikes in cases starting in October of last year. Even in places like NYC which has very stringent masking and limited capacity rules in place.

The most effective mitigation measure we had prior to the vaccine was the quarantine. When we forced everyone stay home and lockdown, we bent the curve. Masks were a compromise mitigation measure which allowed people to leave their homes with some protection but not very much.

[Steelrolled]

4. At least locally, the vaccination rate of nursing home staff is much

lower than that of residents. So masking is appropriate for the staff.

[Skittles]

5. that is just sad

that people working in nursing homes would not be vaccinated

[Steelrolled]

6. I would have never believed it

but it is a common story. I can understand that young people have little motivation to get vaccinated, but I would never have imagined that for nursing home workers.

[Yavin4]

10. This is what is driving me nuts.

The state should not allow anyone to work or even enter a nursing home without being vaccinated. This is absurd. The most effective tool that we have to fight this virus is not being used.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

7. How bizarre is that?

I mean, the vaccines seem to work? Huh. Who'd'a thunk it?

[paleotn]

8. Exactly!

For tomorrow's revelation, the NY Times journalist is working feverishly on....the sun always rises in the east! Who knew?!

[Yavin4]

11. The vaccination success story is under reported because of the stupid politics around the virus.

Bad news about the virus gets wall to wall coverage while good news about the virus hardly gets any attention at all.