Covid vaccinations are doing a really good job at preventing infection, serious illness and keeping people out of hospital.
That's the takeaway from the latest data from the Ministry of Health which shows just four of the 158 cases who've ended up in hospital during this outbreak had two doses of vaccine.
And fewer than 6-percent of the 1622 cases up until 11 October during this outbreak were among doubly vaccinated people.
Māni Dunlop spoke to Auckland University associate professor of vaccinology, Helen Petousis-Harris, about what the figures tell us about vaccinations and the severity of illness.
The tables below with the complete figures are from the Ministry of Health, at 9am on 11 October 2021. (Producer's apologies they do not appear correctly via the RNZ app, but they do in a web browser... at least until this producer figures this out!)
|
Vaccine status |
Number of hospitalisations |
|
Not eligible for vaccine due to being less than 12 years old |
5 |
|
No doses received prior to being reported as a case |
124 |
|
1 dose only, received less than 14 days before reported as a case |
15 |
|
1 dose only, received at least 14 days before reported as a case |
10 |
|
Fully vaccinated but second dose less than 14 days before reported as a case |
1 |
|
Fully vaccinated at least 14 days before reported as a case |
3 |
|
Total |
158 |
|
Vaccination status when reported as a case |
Number of cases |
Percentage of cases |
|
Not eligible for vaccine due to being less than 12 years old |
342 |
21.10% |
|
No doses received prior to being reported as a case |
943 |
58.10% |
|
1 dose only, received less than 14 days before reported as a case |
112 |
6.90% |
|
1 dose only, received at least 14 days before reported as a case |
135 |
8.30% |
|
Fully vaccinated but second dose less than 14 days before reported as a case |
24 |
1.50% |
|
Fully vaccinated at least 14 days before reported as a case |
66 |
4.10% |
|
Total |
1,622 |
100% |
