CDC: No increased mortality risk among COVID-19 vaccine recipients

In a study comparing 6.4 million COVID-19 vaccine recipients with 4.6 million demographically similar unvaccinated persons, recipients of the Pfizer, Moderna or Janssen vaccines had lower non-COVID-19 mortality risk than did the unvaccinated comparison groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week.

"There is no increased risk for mortality among COVID-19 vaccine recipients," the authors said. "This finding reinforces the safety profile of currently approved COVID-19 vaccines in the United States."

According to another study released this week by the CDC, adults under age 50 accounted for a larger proportion of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 after the delta variant became predominant, which the authors said was driven by the larger number of unvaccinated hospitalized patients in this age group.