The study’s findings come as the government prepares to scrap controversial rules banning care home residents from leaving their accommodation.įrom Tuesday residents will be able to leave care homes for “low risk" visits without having to self-isolate for 14 days on their return. The authors pointed out that during the period covered by the study, December 8 to March 10, 2021, vaccinations were heavily focused on older people. The findings were published by the UK Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
“We are all talking about the statistics, but if it is your granny it is a tragedy for your family.”
The study found a total of 526 people were admitted to hospital and 113 people died in what the research team called “vaccine failures”.īut they noted the amount of failures were not surprising based on the results at trials.Ĭolin Semple, professor of outbreak medicine at Liverpool University and one of the study’s authors, told the Times: “People should not be surprised about some vaccine failure. The report warns: “Elderly and vulnerable people who had been shielding, may have inadvertently been exposed and infected either through the end-to-end process of vaccination, or shortly after vaccination through behavioural changes where they wrongly assume they are immune.” They said the patients were largely frail and elderly, while the number of people who were hospitalised represented only around 1 per cent of the 52,000 people involved in the research. Researchers at Liverpool University said the patients had all received one dose of the vaccine at least three weeks before they were admitted. More than 500 people who received their coronavirus jabs have been admitted to hospital with Covid-19, a UK study has found.
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