Overview

• The retrospective study examined 3,500 hospitalized COVID-19 cases from March 2020 to March 2022 and focused on 972 patients who developed acute kidney injury.
• Unvaccinated individuals with kidney injury faced 5.54 times higher odds of dying during hospitalization and 4.78 times greater risk of death over long-term follow-up than those who were vaccinated.
• About 16 percent of unvaccinated patients required continuous renal replacement therapy during their COVID-19 stay compared with roughly 11 percent of vaccinated patients.
• Lead author Dr. Niloofar Nobakht said vaccination’s kidney-protective effect stems from preventing severe infections that drive multi-organ complications.
• The findings arrive as the CDC revises immunization recommendations for healthy children and pregnant women under a newly reconfigured vaccine advisory committee.