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> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2. This is demonstrably false if you actually look at hospital ad
by jaywalk 5y ago
> if you are fully vaccinated, you are at essentially no risk of serious illness from SARS-CoV2.
This is demonstrably false if you actually look at hospital admissions.
- polynomial 5y agoI'm not meaning to take sides here, but there are very real assertions being made that at the very least vaccination lowers the statistical probability of death to <1%, which is obviously seems like something we can verify with admission and fatality data.
- jaywalk 5y agoI haven't heard anything to the contrary, so I'll assume that's true. But as far as "serious illness" goes, I'd say it's pretty serious once you're admitted to a hospital.
- notJim 5y agoDo you have a cite? I thought vaccination reduced hospitalization to nearly zero. Here's a link where the highest state is at .06% https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrough-cases-data-from-the-states/ https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/covid-19-vaccine-breakthrou...
- peteretep 5y ago"the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses; the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses" https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective-against-hospitalisation-from-delta-variant https://www.gov.uk/government/news/vaccines-highly-effective...
- notJim 5y agoThat's relative risk, not absolute risk. It's not saying 8% of people will be hospitalized, it's saying vaccinated people are hospitalized 92% less than unvaccinated people. Your absolute risk is much much smaller than 8%.