A city study shows that people who have got the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, have a milder case of infection, if they do get attacked by the virus. The data to go with the study has been accumulated for the past three months from SevenHills Hospital, one of Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s (BMC) largest Covid-19 facilities. It added that the hospital stay was shorter for people who got infected after getting vaccinated. Moreover, people who had taken both the shots and had crossed the four-week mark, were found to be asymptomatic.

“Since March, we have treated 23 Covid-19 positive patients, who had taken both the doses and 94 patients, who had taken the first dose,” said Dr Balkrishna Adsul, Dean, SHH. He said that out of the 23 Covid-19 patients who had taken both the doses, 12 didn’t have any co-morbidities like diabetes, blood pressure, etc. “Most of the patients who have turned positive post taking both the doses are recuperating at home. A very small percentage of them are getting hospitalised,” said Dr Adsul. “As per our observation at SHH, patients who have needed hospitalisation, had a shorter hospital stay of less than a week.”