Beaumont Study Shows COVID Vaccination Reduces Hospitalization

MICHIGAN — Beaumont Health on Thursday published a new study that shows vaccination against COVID-19 significantly reduces hospitalization.

The health institute said they focused on 11,895 people who tested positive for COVID-19 in an emergency department throughout one of its eight hospitals from Dec. 15 to April 30.

Of the findings, they determined that 10,880 were unvaccinated, 825 were partially vaccinated and 129 fully vaccinated. In other words, 92% of the people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the study were unvaccinated, while just 1% who showed up in the hospital's emergency department was vaccinated.

Moreover, the study specifically measured the rates of hospitalization in the emergency department among COVID-19 patients during the weeks of Feb. 21 to April 21, and found that fully vaccinated patients came in at 1.29 per 100,000 people, as opposed to unvaccinated patients at 22.61 per 100,000 people, which amounts to a significant 96% fewer hospitalizations for the fully vaccinated group.

"This study demonstrated that regardless of the high incidence of daily SARS-CoV-2 infections with a majority due to variant strains, fully vaccinated individuals remained substantially less likely to seek emergency care or become hospitalized." the study said.

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The study also noted that among the three groups were 442 deaths, in which 384 occurred from unvaccinated people, 50 from partially vaccinated people and eight from the fully vaccinated group.

There were also six intubations to go along with the eight deaths for the fully vaccinated COVID-19 patients, but they were all over the age of 65, while the unvaccinated group saw one 21-year-old patient die as well as patients as young as 19 require mechanical ventilation in the hospital, the study showed.

"In summary, emergency visits and hospitalizations in fully vaccinated patients with breakthrough COVID-19 are extremely rare events even in a region with a high incidence of variants," the study showed.