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More than 7,000 people were hospitalised or died from Covid-19 in the UK during the summer of 2022 because they did not get the recommended number of vaccine doses. This is according to a study released on January 16, which was the first to cover Britain’s population of 67 million people.
The researchers said this showed the value of getting booster jabs as Covid continues to be a major health threat.
More than 90 per cent of the UK’s adult population were vaccinated in earlier stages of the pandemic. But between June to September 2022, after the pandemic’s emergency phase was declared over, around 44 per cent of people there were under-vaccinated.
The researchers estimated there would have been 7,180 fewer hospitalisations or deaths if everyone had been up to date with their shots.
Cathie Sudlow, chief scientist at Health Data Research UK, said this showed “being fully and properly vaccinated is good for individuals and ... society”.
