The double vaccinated people of South Africa were 93 percent safe before Omicron, that has dropped to 70 percent. Omicron is able to still cause illness of a double vaccinated person 23 percent of the time.
The unvaccinated are no more safe from Omicron, than Covid-19 or Delta. In the South African study, the immunity from Delta was compromised in 13 percent of the cases. Delta is successful in circumventing the double vaccianted 13 percent of the time.
The largest number of people hospitalized at risk for death are the unvaccinated.
Children are hospitalized at a 20 percent higher rate with Omicron.
One other fact that came out in the South African study is that double vaccinated became ill at a rate of 62 percent with Omicron. Obviously not all were hospitalized.
By Alexander Winning and Wendell Roelf
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Johannesburg - Two doses of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine (click here) appear to have given 70% protection against hospitalisation in South Africa in recent weeks, according to a major real-world study which suggests weaker efficacy against the new Omicron variant.
The study released on Tuesday by South Africa's largest private health insurance administrator, Discovery Health, was based on more than 211,000 positive COVID-19 test results. Around 78,000 of those results from Nov. 15 to Dec. 7 were attributed to Omicron.
The 78,000 results are not confirmed Omicron cases, meaning the study cannot offer conclusive findings about the variant labelled "of concern" by the World Health Organization and reported in more than 60 countries....
