Are people vaccinated against covid more protected from road accidents .... or not.COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Risk of a Traffic Crash.

SoPeople that take covid vaccines are the sort of people who have less traffic accidentsPeople who do not take covid vaccines are the sort of people who have more traffic accidentsMethodsPopulation-based longitudinal cohort analysis of adultsDetermined COVID vaccination status from electronic medical recordsTraffic crashes requiring emergency medical care.

Subsequently identified accidents from all (178) hospitalsOne month follow-upResults, (2021)N = 11,270,763Total traffic accidents, 6,682Unvaccinated, 16%Vaccinated, 84%Unvaccinated individuals1,682 traffic crashes (25%)Equal to a 72% increased relativeConfidence interval, (95%) 63% to 82%(P less than 0.001)