Vaccination reduces risk of severe COVID-19 infection
King’s College London Vaccinated adults who contract COVID-19 infection experience a less severe illness, new research has found. However, adults who are frail, living in areas of high deprivation or have unhealthy lifestyles are more at risk of COVID-19 infection and getting ill, despite being vaccinated, compared to other vaccinated people. Researchers at King’s College London analysed data from participants logging their symptoms, tests and vaccines on the UK ZOE COVID Symptom Study app between 8th December 2020 and 14th May 2021, including 1,102,192 individuals who had been vaccinated...