Older seniors are being urged to get the updated shot to reduce their risk
People age 80 and up who have not yet had COVID-19 three years into the pandemic may seem a lucky bunch, but a new study shows they remain at persistent high risk of serious outcomes, including hospitalization and death, if they do contract it.
Serious illness from a first-time COVID-19 infection increases starting at age 50, when risk remains low, until 80 and older, when the risk rises “quite dramatically.” “It’s really the older age band 80 years of age and older where we’re seeing still a substantial proportion remaining uninfected and it’s that group that we’re most concerned about,” Skowronski said.
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix said as of Sunday night, 740,529 influenza vaccines and 528,525 COVID-19 vaccines had been administered in B.C. since the beginning of the respiratory illness immunization campaign in early October, putting B.C. far ahead of the other Canadian jurisdictions that provide the information.
Invitations to book vaccinations have been sent to 3.5 million people so far, starting with health-care workers, long-term care residents, clinically vulnerable people, those over age 65, then children six months to age 18, and finally, people 18 to 64 in descending order.Another 208,000 invitation reminders have been sent to people 65 and older who have not yet booked their shots.
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