Mortality linked to covid-19 was this January ten times greater among unvaccinated Uruguayans than among those who already have three doses of the vaccine, which demonstrates the “clear benefits” of inoculation and the importance of achieving “high coverage” at a general level. This was indicated this Friday by a report on the characterization of serious cases and deaths with the disease from the Ministry of Public Health (MSP) in relation to the progress of the Strategic Vaccination Plan.
The study compared the mortality rate of the Uruguayan population according to their vaccination status in November and December 2021 and in January of this year. According to data from the MSP, this month the Mortality with a diagnosis of covid-19 among the unvaccinated was 10.6 per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Among those who only have one dose of a vaccine against the disease, the rate was 2.70 on the same scale. Mortality among those vaccinated with a primary scheme –two doses– was 2.27. Meanwhile, among citizens who have the three doses there were 1.08 deaths per hundred thousand inhabitants.
In December, the rates had a smaller difference between them. Among the unvaccinated it was 8.97 per hundred thousand inhabitants, 1.43 among those inoculated with one dose, 1.11 among those who had both doses and 0.07 per hundred thousand inhabitants among those they had all three doses. In November, meanwhile, the deaths diagnosed with covid-19 among the unvaccinated population was 6.58 per hundred thousand inhabitants.
Among those vaccinated with a single dose this proportion was 1.37 and among those who had received two doses it was 1.63. The deaths attributed to the disease among those who were inoculated with the three doses was only 0.29 per hundred thousand inhabitants. The data corresponds to the Department of Health Surveillance (Sgdevisa) and the Vaccine Information System (SIV), which is where the vaccines that are administered nationwide to the entire population are registered.
Minimum levels
The MSP highlighted this Friday that Uruguay has had a high vaccination rate, started together with the “first wave” of infections and that it has achieved high coverage nationwide. That, it was stated, contributed to a “rapid control” of that wave.
In the secretariat it was also emphasized that both the number of deaths and the amount of income in CTI is in January in the “minimum levels” of the 22 months of health emergency, coinciding with the “second wave”. The evolution in terms of the number of deaths showed that in March 2020 there were 371.4 deaths linked to the disease for every 10,000 cases of covid-19 diagnosed.
Current figures indicate that, in January of this year, that proportion had fallen to four deaths for every 10,000 cases. The same thing happened with those admitted to intensive care. In March 2020, for every ten thousand diagnosed cases, there were 526 admissions. This month, that ratio had fallen to 6.1 cases on that scale. he
