The two main COVID-19 vaccines used in the United States are still protecting well against hospitalization and death, even with a new variant of the virus that causes COVID-19 circulating, a trio of new studies out Friday show.
At the same time, the effectiveness of the vaccines is down for the elderly, and the Johnson & Johnson jab showed much lower protection than the others, researchers found. And people who are not fully vaccinated have a much higher risk of needing hospital care or dying with COVID-19, the disease caused by the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the studies indicated.
