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Ashley Summerfield

Risk of death involving Covid is 93 per cent lower in fully-vaccinated people compared with unvaccinated

People who have had a booster or third dose of vaccine have a 93 per cent lower risk of death involving Covid-19 compared with the unvaccinated, new research suggests.

Mortality rates were found to be "consistently lower" across all age groups who had received an extra dose of vaccine compared to the unvaccinated, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

The research used age-standardised mortality rates and took into account differences in age structure and population size, to allow for comparisons between vaccination groups.

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