People infected with the delta variant of the new type of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) may be twice as likely to be treated in hospital as the alpha variant previously prevalent in Britain, but vaccination – two doses – provides strong protection against it, Scottish researchers show in an MTI report, according to the MTI report. for .
A study published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at 19,543 new Covid-19 patients with coronavirus and 377 who were hospitalized between 1 April and 6 June in Scotland, a population of 5.4 million. It was found that 7,723 of the infected and 134 in need of hospitalization had contracted the delta type of virus.
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– Tell Chris RobertsonProfessor of Public Health Epidemiology at the University of Strachclyde. “Two doses of vaccination, or one dose after 28 days, reduce the risk of hospitalization by about 70 percent,” the professor told reporters. According to the island.
Experts showed that two weeks after the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, there was 79% protection from the delta variant and 92% from the alpha variant (which appeared in the UK last year).
However, the researchers were wary of using the data to compare vaccines with each other, as there are differences in the group of people vaccinated with different vaccines and in how quickly protection develops after each vaccine.
