McKnight's March 7, 2024
A new model estimates that people over 65 or those who are immunocompromised benefit the most from COVID-19 booster shots.
Among older adults, more frequent boosters (at least annually) do more to protect against being hospitalized for COVID-19 or dying from it, the researchers said. The results align, for the most part, with who is most at risk for bad COVID-19 outcomes — older people and those with compromised immune systems.
“We’re in the fourth year of the pandemic now, and we’re shifting toward more long-term mitigation strategies,” Hailey Park, lead author of the study who is a research data scientist at the university, said. “We know that protection from vaccination wanes, and we know that disease risk...
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