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… and 99% of cases in the US are among the unvaccinated. What’s your point?
by seventytwo 5y ago
… and 99% of cases in the US are among the unvaccinated.
What’s your point?
- bpodgursky 5y agoThe point is that the people naturally infected were not reinfected. That stat isn't incompatible. The 99% in the US could easily be the people neither vaccinated nor previously-infected. It says nothing about the risk of reinfection.
- SubiculumCode 5y agoSmall samples are almost the same a meaningless.
- jstanley 5y agoBut the US methodology of deciding whether you have COVID is much more strict if you've been vaccinated - this just fudges the numbers to make it look like vaccines work much better than they really do.
- seventytwo 5y agoFair, but infections is only a proxy measurement for the actual outcome we are trying to avoid: hospitalizations and death. The fact remains that hospitalizations and deaths are basically only occurring among the unvaccinated.
- jstanley 5y agoHow are you measuring that? If it's using the CDC measure of whether you have COVID, then many of the hospitalised and dead who "didn't have COVID" were merely vaccinated and therefore didn't count.