1 00:00:00,750 --> 00:00:05,750 The percentage of vaccinated people with COVID-19 in hospital is increasing. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:07,750 How is that possible? 3 00:00:08,500 --> 00:00:11,250 If you are fully vaccinated, you are much less likely... 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:13,750 to become infected with the coronavirus. 5 00:00:14,250 --> 00:00:17,250 If you do become infected, you will usually not become ill... 6 00:00:17,500 --> 00:00:19,750 or only have mild symptoms. 7 00:00:20,250 --> 00:00:23,750 COVID-19 vaccinations offer 95% protection... 8 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,000 against hospital admission. 9 00:00:26,750 --> 00:00:29,750 It is very unlikely that you will end up in hospital... 10 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:31,500 after being vaccinated. 11 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:34,750 Even so, the percentage of fully vaccinated people... 12 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,750 among people who are admitted to hospital... 13 00:00:37,250 --> 00:00:39,000 with COVID-19 is rising. 14 00:00:39,750 --> 00:00:41,500 How is that possible? 15 00:00:41,750 --> 00:00:45,500 As more people are vaccinated, vaccination coverage rises. 16 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:51,250 This is the percentage of the total population that is fully vaccinated against COVID-19. 17 00:00:52,250 --> 00:00:55,500 A vaccination never offers 100% protection... 18 00:00:55,750 --> 00:00:57,500 against hospital admissions. 19 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 For example, in a small proportion of people... 20 00:01:01,250 --> 00:01:05,000 the vaccine does not work well, or works less effectively. 21 00:01:05,500 --> 00:01:10,250 This may be because they have other diseases or are using certain medicines. 22 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 That is why, as vaccination coverage rises... 23 00:01:14,250 --> 00:01:16,500 the percentage of patients who are vaccinated... 24 00:01:16,750 --> 00:01:17,750 also rises slightly. 25 00:01:18,500 --> 00:01:22,500 Let’s look at a group of 10,000 people to illustrate this. 26 00:01:23,250 --> 00:01:24,750 When no one was vaccinated... 27 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,500 200 of these people had to be admitted to hospital. 28 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:31,000 With vaccination coverage at 10%... 29 00:01:31,500 --> 00:01:34,250 for every 10,000 people who had COVID-19... 30 00:01:34,500 --> 00:01:37,750 181 were admitted to hospital. 31 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:40,500 1 of these people was fully vaccinated. 32 00:01:41,500 --> 00:01:44,000 With vaccination coverage at 50%... 33 00:01:44,500 --> 00:01:47,000 the number of hospital admissions dropped by almost half... 34 00:01:47,250 --> 00:01:50,250 falling from 200 to 105. 35 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:56,000 Out of those 105 admissions, 5 people were fully vaccinated. 36 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,250 When 90% of the population is vaccinated... 37 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:04,000 the number of hospital admissions falls from 200 to 29. 38 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:07,750 Nine of those people have been fully vaccinated. 39 00:02:08,250 --> 00:02:10,000 As vaccination coverage rises... 40 00:02:10,750 --> 00:02:13,250 very few people have to be admitted to hospital... 41 00:02:13,750 --> 00:02:16,500 but the percentage of vaccinated patients is higher. 42 00:02:17,250 --> 00:02:20,750 Vaccination is still the best way to prevent disease... 43 00:02:21,250 --> 00:02:24,000 the spread of the virus and hospital admissions. 44 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:25,500 Would you like to know more? 45 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:31,500 Go to https://www.rivm.nl/en/covid-19