{"id":329425,"date":"2025-12-05T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:02:11","slug":"first-long-term-study-on-covid-deaths-suggests-vaccines-safe-four-years-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329425\/","title":{"rendered":"First long-term study on COVID deaths suggests vaccines safe four years on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The first long-term study on the risks of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine has found those who were vaccinated had a lower risk of dying from the infectious disease.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The study by French epidemiological group EPI-PHARE, analysed the data of 22.7 million vaccinated individuals and 5.9 million unvaccinated people in France between the ages of 18 to 59.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">While several studies have assessed the impact of COVID vaccines on short-term mortality, none have compared long-term mortality risks based on vaccination status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The nationwide data revealed those who had the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine had a 74 per cent lower risk of dying from COVID, even four years after being vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">This remained consistent even when researchers accounted for factors such as age, wealth and health conditions, but they speculated there could be other factors they hadn\u2019t measured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">Researchers also found those who were vaccinated had a 25 per cent lower risk of death from any cause.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">The authors said the results suggested the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are safe long-term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-9cqv6l-StyledPNParagraph e8utp6u0\">\u201cThe analysis by cause of death reflects the long-term effectiveness of vaccination on the risk of death from COVID-19, and more broadly on the risk of developing a severe, hospitalised form of COVID-19,\u201d the authors concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first long-term study on the risks of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccine has found those who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[64,63,85171,137,44,1836],"class_list":["post-329425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-health","tag-news","tag-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}