Sure, my bad, but my point was to compare incidence rates for vaccinated vs not, and 18k deaths are also out of 853k hospitalizations. Keeping the comparison v

Sure, my bad, but my point was to compare incidence rates for vaccinated vs not, and 18k deaths are also out of 853k hospitalizations. Keeping the comparison valid even if badly "misnamed", if hospitalization rates are the same (which are not reported here).