COVID Boosters reduced the Omicron' infections rate in Nursing Homes

CDC: COVID Boosters Blunted Omicron's Effect on Nursing Homes Residents with a booster more protected than those with only a primary series Molly Walker medpagetoday

An additional booster dose of COVID vaccine helped substantially reduce the rate of infection in nursing home residents during the Omicron wave compared with a primary series alone, researchers found.

After adjustment, relative vaccine effectiveness (VE) of an additional dose of COVID vaccine was 46.9% (95% CI 44.8-48.9) in preventing cases among this population, reported Namrata Prasad, PhD, of the CDC, and colleagues, writing in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

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