No vacunados enfrentan un riesgo 11 veces mayor de morir por covid-19

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(CNN) -- Los adultos no vacunados en Estados Unidos enfrentan un riesgo 11 veces mayor de morir por covid-19 que las personas completamente vacunadas. También tienen un riesgo seis veces mayor de dar positivo por covid-19 que los que ya tienen su esquema de vacunación completo, según nuevos datos publicados por los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades de EE.UU. (CDC), del mes de agosto.

In the last week of August, the most recent week for which data was available, CDC data shows that the risk of being hospitalized is nearly 19 times higher for unvaccinated adults than for fully vaccinated adults.

For this analysis, the CDC collected data from jurisdictions that provide case, death, and hospitalization rates by vaccination status.

Case data is available in 14 states, as well as New York City and King County in Seattle, representing approximately 30% of the total US population.

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Death data is available in all but one of those jurisdictions, and hospitalization data comes from a different set of 13 states.

Risk rates vary by age group.

For example, the rate of covid-19 hospitalizations among adults under the age of 50 is roughly 15 times higher for unvaccinated than for fully vaccinated.

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For people ages 50 to 64, the hospitalization rate is 31 times higher for unvaccinated people, and for people 65 and older, the hospitalization rate is 16 times higher for unvaccinated people.

CDC data also shows that the risk of death from COVID-19 for unvaccinated people has dropped in recent weeks as case rates across the country decline, but the rate of hospitalizations among people has not. vaccinated continues to increase.

"Vaccination against covid-19 reduces the risk of contracting the disease and helps protect you from serious diseases even if you do contract covid-19," according to the CDC.

The agency is leading studies to continue to monitor the effectiveness of the vaccine and progress cases over time.

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