The picture is the same in Tilburg: almost all of the admitted patients are unvaccinated. “There are also conscious refusals among them,” says doctor-microbiologist Jean-Luc Murk. And there are no known cases of fully vaccinated corona patients in Groningen. der Voort. “While that would certainly be mentioned.”
At the hospitals consulted, (sometimes many) dozens of unvaccinated patients are always compared with at most a few patients who have already been fully vaccinated. It is another indication that the corona vaccines are doing their job. After all, many Dutch people, and especially the elderly who are most vulnerable to Covid-19, have now been vaccinated.
Many hospitals cannot provide exact numbers. There is also no registration of the vaccination status of admitted corona patients at the national level. This means that RIVM does not have accurate insight into the number of patients who have and have not been vaccinated in hospitals. ‘Very unfortunate,’ says the Groningen intensivist Van der Voort. “Especially towards the autumn it could provide a lot of information. It provides insight into which vaccines work best, whether immunity lasts and to what extent they protect against variants.”
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