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It could be worse. It could have gone from a 99.9% to 99.1% in preventing hospitalization. That would be an 9x higher chance of hospitalization!
by hellomyguys 5y ago
It could be worse. It could have gone from a 99.9% to 99.1% in preventing hospitalization. That would be an 9x higher chance of hospitalization!
- krona 5y agoThat's the difference between extended lockdown periods and normality in many countries.
- kurthr 5y agoI think you're confusing population wide death rates with post infection hospitalization rates. There's about 10x between death and hospitalization and there is about a 3-10x difference between population vs infection (for many countries 10-33% is a reasonable range of infection... except for China/Taiwan/Korea which are in the <1% range).
- davidf18 5y agoInfection rate protection of 64% is the key number because of Long Covid. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/covid-19-patients.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/15/health/covid-19-patients.... A study of 2 million people with Covid. 1/4 had symptoms 1 month and later after the initial infection. 1/5 of those were asymptomatic -- they did not know that they had Covid until they complained of health issues consistent with others who had Covid and then were tested. Areas of the US that are not well vaccinated will be having real problems, but even those that are vaccinated will have to be very, very careful.