Do the updated COVID-19 vaccines keep people out of the emergency room?

When you get a COVID-19 shot, a big hope is that it will keep you from getting so sick you need urgent medical care. A recent study tried to measure exactly that, checking if the updated bivalent vaccines prevented emergency room visits, urgent care trips, and hospitalizations in healthy adults across nine states. The research, which looked at real-world data, has not yet reported its findings, so we don't know the level of protection it found. This means we are still waiting for the crucial numbers that tell us how effective these shots were at keeping people out of the hospital during the period studied.