The report from London is enough to dispel confusion about vaccination. According to this report, a data related to AstraZeneca’s vaccine has revealed that one of its doses reduces the risk of death due to infection by 80 percent. Public Health England (PHE) has given this information.
It has also been reported that the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNotech vaccine reduces the risk of death due to infection by 80 percent. After the second dose, this risk is reduced to 97 percent.
It also said protection against death from the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine rises from approximately 80% after one dose to 97% after two doses in its new analysis.
PHE said the study was the first on protection against mortality from the AstraZeneca vaccine based on data from a real world setting.
“Combined with the protection vaccines offer against becoming a case in the first place, this is equivalent to approximately 80% protection against mortality in individuals vaccinated with a single dose of either vaccine,” PHE said in a statement.
In another dataset, PHE said that it was estimated that two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine reduces the risk of hospitalisation by 93% for the over 80s.
