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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5502965" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11677059/CDC-study-finds-bivalent-Covid-vaccines-provide-strong-protection-against-XBB-1-5-variant.html[/URL]Most Americans who get their bivalent booster vaccine are not protected against falling sick with Covid, official data suggests.A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc/index.html" target="_blank">CDC</a>) released today found the updated shots were just 48 percent effective at stopping symptomatic infection caused by the XBB.1.5 subvariant for up to three months.The CDC highlighted that the main purpose of the vaccines is to prevent hospitalization and death rather than transmission, and they are still expected to give high protection against severe illness.But the findings mean the bivalent shots - which the US Government paid $5billion for last autumn - fall short of the <a href="https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/vaccine-efficacy-effectiveness-and-protection" target="_blank">World Health Organization&#039;s 50 percent efficacy threshold </a>for an effective vaccine</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5502965, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11677059/CDC-study-finds-bivalent-Covid-vaccines-provide-strong-protection-against-XBB-1-5-variant.html[/URL] Most Americans who get their bivalent booster vaccine are not protected against falling sick with Covid, official data suggests. A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ([URL='https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-cdc/index.html']CDC[/URL]) released today found the updated shots were just 48 percent effective at stopping symptomatic infection caused by the XBB.1.5 subvariant for up to three months. The CDC highlighted that the main purpose of the vaccines is to prevent hospitalization and death rather than transmission, and they are still expected to give high protection against severe illness. But the findings mean the bivalent shots - which the US Government paid $5billion for last autumn - fall short of the [URL='https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/vaccine-efficacy-effectiveness-and-protection']World Health Organization's 50 percent efficacy threshold [/URL]for an effective vaccine [/QUOTE]

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