Research: Chance of Fully Vaccinated People Ending Up in Hospital Almost 60 Times Lower

Hospital bed (Beta/Milan Obradovic)

The possibility of fully vaccinated people being hospitalized because of the coronavirus three weeks after receiving the second dose of the jab is nearly 60 times lower compared to the citizens who have not received the vaccine, according to the preliminary results of research conducted on a sample of close to 29,000 vaccinated and 100,000 non-vaccinated citizens in Kragujevac.

According to the April 20 issue of daily Blic, the research, conducted from Jan. 1 to March 31, monitored whether and to what extent the vaccinated got sick compared to the non-vaccinated, the incidence of pneumonia and how many vaccinated citizens had to be hospitalized.

The results have shown that the chance of getting pneumonia three weeks after the second dose of the vaccine is 15 times lower in vaccinated citizens, and so out of the 28,630 vaccinated people included in the research, six who got sick three weeks after receiving the second dose had to be hospitalized.

"The vaccine reduces the number of infections, more severe symptoms and the number of hospitalized [citizens]. Did anyone get sick? Yes, they did, but what the symptoms were like should be taken into account. We are not just looking at the number of those who got sick, but rather at how many patients had to go to the hospital, too, and that information irrefutably testifies to milder symptoms in the vaccinated," said the head of the research, microbiology specialist Dejan Baskic.