Tucked away inside Slide number 12 of the CDC’s recent presentation on vaccine efficacy is a truly startling datapoint. It showed that, in the most recent period of time, the efficacy of the vaccine actually turned negative (in terms of hospitalizations). Meaning: if 2 people contracted COVID, and one of them was vaccinated, while the other was unvaccinated—the vaccinated individual would be more at risk of being hospitalized.
Eight percent more at risk to be exact.
Furthermore, the data showed that the bivalent booster was able to alleviate this effect for a period of 3 months. However, after 3 months, the boosted individuals returned to negative 8 percent efficacy (when compared to the unvaccinated cohort)….