> It would appear that mass vaccination had a minimal effect on the already low case fatality rate. Why would one focus on any impact on the case fatality rate

> It would appear that mass vaccination had a minimal effect on the already low case fatality rate. Why would one focus on any impact on the case fatality rate? A lot of vaccination's benefit is preventing infections and cases in the first place, isn't it? That graph is also misleading, because it's looking at the cumulative case fatality rate, not the fatality rate at a given point in time. That is, it's the ratio between the red and purple lines on this graph. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-deaths-and-cases-covid-19?country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-deaths-and-cas...