Miami Herald
Substance abuse raises risks of COVID after vaccination — especially if it’s weed
Katie Camero
Wed, October 6, 2021, 2:18 PM
Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 lowers your chances of catching the coronavirus, but people with substance use disorders (SUDs) face higher risks for infection after vaccination compared to those without the disorder.
And marijuana, of all abused drugs included in new research, made the biggest impact in the likelihood someone got a breakthrough infection, defined as those that occur two or more weeks following complete vaccination, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal World Psychiatry.
An analysis of nearly 580,000 electronic medical records of fully vaccinated people without a prior coronavirus infection revealed that 7% of those with SUDs — involving alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, opioid or tobacco — had a breakthrough case compared to 3.6% of those without SUDs.
People with SUDs were also more likely to be hospitalized and die from breakthrough infections.
Among those included in the study, about 22.5% with SUDs required hospitalization, while 1.7% of them died due to their breakthrough case. That’s compared to 1.6% and 0.5%, respectively, among people with SUDs but who didn’t get sick, meaning they were hospitalized or died from other causes.
Researchers learned underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity, as well as poor socioeconomic factors such as housing and employment instability, were “largely responsible†for the increased risk of breakthrough infections among those with SUDs.
But when researchers accounted for these factors in the data, they found only marijuana use disorder made one more likely (55%) to get COVID-19 after vaccination; all other SUDs had no longer increased risk for breakthrough infection."
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/substance-abuse-raises-risks-covid-201805552.html
hmmm... perhaps JT should outlaw weed! Sell those stocks?
Substance abuse raises risks of COVID after vaccination — especially if it’s weed
Katie Camero
Wed, October 6, 2021, 2:18 PM
Getting vaccinated against COVID-19 lowers your chances of catching the coronavirus, but people with substance use disorders (SUDs) face higher risks for infection after vaccination compared to those without the disorder.
And marijuana, of all abused drugs included in new research, made the biggest impact in the likelihood someone got a breakthrough infection, defined as those that occur two or more weeks following complete vaccination, according to a new study published Tuesday in the journal World Psychiatry.
An analysis of nearly 580,000 electronic medical records of fully vaccinated people without a prior coronavirus infection revealed that 7% of those with SUDs — involving alcohol, cannabis, cocaine, opioid or tobacco — had a breakthrough case compared to 3.6% of those without SUDs.
People with SUDs were also more likely to be hospitalized and die from breakthrough infections.
Among those included in the study, about 22.5% with SUDs required hospitalization, while 1.7% of them died due to their breakthrough case. That’s compared to 1.6% and 0.5%, respectively, among people with SUDs but who didn’t get sick, meaning they were hospitalized or died from other causes.
Researchers learned underlying health conditions, including high blood pressure, heart disease and obesity, as well as poor socioeconomic factors such as housing and employment instability, were “largely responsible†for the increased risk of breakthrough infections among those with SUDs.
But when researchers accounted for these factors in the data, they found only marijuana use disorder made one more likely (55%) to get COVID-19 after vaccination; all other SUDs had no longer increased risk for breakthrough infection."
https://ca.yahoo.com/news/substance-abuse-raises-risks-covid-201805552.html
hmmm... perhaps JT should outlaw weed! Sell those stocks?
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