ARCHIVED - Vaccines reduce Covid mortality risk for elderly patients in Spain by 97 per cent
33,133 Spanish care home residents were monitored after their vaccinations to see how effective the drugs were.
The Messenger RNA vaccines by Pfizer and Moderna reduce the risk of elderly care home residents dying of Covid-19 by 97 per cent, according to the results of the first study on the effectiveness of the vaccines that was carried out at homes across Spain.
Data collected between 27 December 2020 and 4 April 2021 revealed that the vaccines reduced the chances of the senior residents catching the virus by 71 per cent and their chances of requiring hospital treatment for the virus by 88 per cent, the Ministry of Health has reported.
The results of the study, carried out in collaboration with the Carlos III Health Institute, have been published in Eurosurveillance medical journal and were reached by monitoring 33,133 residents of care homes aged 65 and above who had been fully inoculated.
More than 20,000 patients have died in Spansih carehomes during the pandemic.