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Are you claiming this is good or bad? By comparison, in some years the influenza vaccine is under 40% effective. 0.9 deaths per 1 million is amazing (especial
by nl 5y ago
Are you claiming this is good or bad?
By comparison, in some years the influenza vaccine is under 40% effective. 0.9 deaths per 1 million is amazing (especially given the likely age profile).
See https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200902/how-effective-is-the-flu-vaccine https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200902/how-effective-is-th... for some information about the flu vaccine.
In April the vaccination rate was much lower. In a hypothetical situation where 100% of people are vaccinated, all Covid deaths will be vaccinated people.
With so small numbers if vaccinated people dying we should expect that deaths per million to jump around depending on regional outbreaks for a while.
- rrock 5y agoIn addition, in April we didn’t have the delta variant in the US.
- nanis 5y ago> Are you claiming this is good or bad? Neither. In April, the rate of death from Covid19 among those fully vaccinated against Covid19 was 0.9/million. By August 9, it was at 7.5/million. CDC used to provide updates every Friday for the preceding Monday. The rate increased with every report. The last update was on August 13. So, I wondered why they had not updated on Friday this time. I see now that they just posted an update since this thread started[1] and after the approval was announced. This will increase my posterior belief that the update had been held back to happen after the approval announcement for political reasons. Total deaths: 1,829 Asymptomatic or not Covid19 related: 371 Rate (1,829 - 371)/168 = 8.7/million. Up again. [1]: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/bre...