The Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine provided less protection against the Omicron variant than the Delta strain in children but did protect against severe illness from both variants.
The researchers found that overall, 88 percent of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were unvaccinated and 25 percent required life-supporting measures.
In the adolescent group aged 12-18 that were hospitalized with COVID-19 infections, 87 percent were unvaccinated. The study said twenty-seven percent were critically ill and of those, 93 percent were unvaccinated. Two children died, the release said. According to the study, two doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine were 68 percent effective in preventing hospitalization during omicron among the group of children 5-11 years old. The researchers said in the release that since this age group only recently became eligible for the vaccine, they could not efficiently calculate the numbers of critical illnesses separately.
Despite the decline, the authors of the study said vaccination was 96 percent effective in preventing severe cases of the illness during the delta period and 79 percent during the wave of omicron.
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