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Arkansas health officials: vaccines cut severe COVID outcomes; therapeutics remain limited
Summary
State health leaders told the Senate Public Health Committee that COVID‑19 vaccines continue to prevent severe illness and death but that treatments are in short supply; they urged boosters for Omicron and outlined how limited monoclonals and antivirals are being allocated.
Arkansas Department of Health Secretary Jose Romero told the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee that COVID‑19 vaccines remain highly effective at preventing severe illness and death and that booster doses are needed to optimize protection against the Omicron variant. Romero said the state’s hospitalizations and deaths continue to be concentrated among people who are unvaccinated or who have not completed a primary series plus boosters.
"COVID vaccines have been proven to be highly effective in the prevention of severe illness and death," Romero said, adding that those who have been boosted form "a very, very small percentage" of…
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