{"id":38062,"date":"2021-07-23T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T00:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T01:22:33","slug":"study-finds-covid-19-is-95-percent-lower-in-vaccinated-philadelphia-school-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38062","title":{"rendered":"Study finds COVID-19 is 95 percent lower in vaccinated Philadelphia school employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study published Friday found the portion of positive COVID-19 tests among vaccinated school employees in Philadelphia was 95 percent lower than among unvaccinated workers.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rwnwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrkcjln_vfkfhhpvpnfgvjrmrjrp.html?a=&amp;b=40953\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rwnwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbcrkcjln_vfkfhhpvpnfgvjrmrjrp.html?a%3D%26b%3D40953&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1627167277734000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH8yNuywWoFfSih8pMidgaFhKpYKA\">Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)<\/a>\u00a0reported that weekly tests among School District of Philadelphia employees working in-person earlier this year returned 0.09 percent positive results among those vaccinated with two doses.<\/p>\n<p>Comparatively, 1.21 percent of workers who had one dose and 1.76 percent of employees who had zero shots tested positive for COVID-19, showing the effectiveness of the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The research included the mandatory screening tests for employees during the first five weeks of in-person work. In total, 0.7 percent of the 34,048 COVID-19 tests returned positive results among about 12,300 employees between March 21 and April 23.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Takeaway:\u00a0<\/strong>The research comes as the back-to-school season is approaching and as communities aim to start this school year with full-time in-person learning after the pandemic disrupted traditional education.<\/p>\n<p>While all adults are authorized to get the vaccine, only children older than 12 years old are eligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVaccination of school staff members has been highlighted as an important strategy to maximize the safety of in-person education,\u201d the MMWR reads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study published Friday found the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38063,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions\/38063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}