People ‘Up to Date’ With COVID-19 Vaccines More Likely to Be Infected: Study

People “up to date” with their COVID-19 vaccinations are more likely to get infected, according to a new study.
Vaccinated people who received one of the updated bivalent vaccines had a higher risk of becoming infected when compared to people who had not—a group that included both vaccinated and unvaccinated people—researchers with the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio found.
The higher risk held even after adjusting for factors such as age and job location.
“This study highlights the challenges of counting on protection from a vaccine when the effectiveness of the vaccine decreases over time as new variants emerge that are antigenically very different from those used to develop the vaccine,” Dr. Nabin Shrestha and other researchers said….