A new study released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bolstered President Joe Biden’s stepped-up emphasis on inoculation, providing new empirical evidence that vaccine hesitancy leads to heightened risks.

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Examining 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states between April and July, the study found that the unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than vaccinated individuals to become infected, 10 times more likely to be hospitalized, and 11 times more likely to die from the coronavirus.

“The bottom line is this: We have the scientific tools we need to turn the corner on this pandemic,” CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said on Friday. “Vaccination works and will protect us from the severe complications of COVID-19.”

Axios breaks down the numbers:

Of the 37,948 hospitalizations in the 13 jurisdictions, 2,976 or about 8% were vaccinated.

Of the 6,748 deaths, 616 or about 9% were people who were fully vaccinated.

Of the 615,454 cases the agency looked at, 46,312 or about 8% of people were fully vaccinated.

The study also revealed that the vaccines offer a stellar defense against the delta strain, although protection from infection dropped from 91 percent to 78 percent in the face of the highly transmissible variant.

But that shouldn’t dissuade Americans who are on the fence about getting vaccinated, Walensky said.

“What I want to reiterate here is it’s still well over 90 percent of people who are in the hospital who are unvaccinated,” Walensky added. “We still have more than 10 times the number of people in the hospital who are unvaccinated, compared to vaccinated.”

"As we have shown, study after study, vaccination works,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at a White House Covid briefing on Friday.https://t.co/w6CTZt4B5B

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Meanwhile, a different study released Friday by the CDC indicates that the Moderna vaccine might be the most effective. From The Washington Post reports on the salient findings:

While the three vaccines were collectively 86 percent effective in preventing hospitalization, protection was significantly higher among Moderna vaccine recipients (95 percent) than among those who got Pfizer-BioNTech (80 percent) or Johnson & Johnson (60 percent).