You're misunderstanding the 160,000 number. It's not 1 in 160,000 were newly hospitalized per day. It's 1 in 160,000 were hospitalized at all. So it's actually

You're misunderstanding the 160,000 number. It's not 1 in 160,000 were newly hospitalized per day. It's 1 in 160,000 were hospitalized at all. So it's actually 1094 hospitalized at all on an average day, whereas 643 new hospitalizations are occurring per day among the unvaccinated. I'm guessing you took Biden's numbers from here: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine-mandates-transcript.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/09/us/politics/biden-vaccine... and I agree that in the context he provides your use of the number that way seems reasonable - as is often the case, Biden didn't communicate well. However, if the number means what you mean we'd have many many more hospitalized people than we currently do, and articles like this one https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-19-hospitalizations-nonvaccinated https://www.foxnews.com/health/covid-19-hospitalizations-non... would be full of completely made up, easily proven false data. Neither is the case.