More than 80% of third wave victims were unvaccinated. Almost all the vaccinated dead had one thing in common – Startitup

The third wave of the pandemic claimed 70 lives. According to the data, up to 81.5 percent of people who died from very severe coronavirus pneumonia were not vaccinated at all. The portal informed about it Noviny.sk television Joj.

Protection lasts six months

The portal stated that the Office for Health Care Supervision, in cooperation with the Institute of Health Analysis, performed an analysis of deaths in the third wave. This means from 28.7. by the end of September so that they can evaluate the spectrum of people who have died of coronavirus infection and vaccination.

“When we take the spectrum of people who have been vaccinated and died, we also need to look at the time since the second dose, and there we see that except for one patient who was 47 years old, everyone else was vaccinated for more than six months before. second dose.

It follows that the protection which is individual, very individual, but it can be stated that that protection lasts six months, ‘ explained the main coroner Michal Palkovič how to read these results.

The third dose is necessary

According to him, the monitored data show that in the age category that we classify as at risk, ie in the age of 65-69 years, the risk of death of the unvaccinated is 20.9 times higher.

“In the category of 70-74 years, 19.5 times the risk and between 75-79 only 9.2 times higher risk, which is to say that even the percentage of vaccination is significantly higher there, when we talk about the higher age categories ,“Palkovic stated.

According to the coroner, a third dose or even a busting dose is necessary, as analyzes have shown that protection by vaccination is individual, but in general protection is valid for six months.

Sources: TV JOJ, SITA