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TL;DR: It’s because elderly dominate the hospital statistics and the elderly are most likely to be fully vaccinated there. This isn’t some condemnation of the
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
TL;DR: It’s because elderly dominate the hospital statistics and the elderly are most likely to be fully vaccinated there.
This isn’t some condemnation of the vaccine. It’s a demographic quirk. It’s also not even the norm. It’s a headline precisely because it’s unexpected and different. Clearly the headline writers sat down and brainstormed how to make this headline as misleading and controversial as possible to get clicks.
For a given age group, hospitalizations and deaths are still significantly higher among the unvaccinated of the same demographic. The difference is so stark that it’s not even a question.
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- peteradio 5y agoIt does call into question what potential impact hospital systems will feel by fully vaccinating younger population.
- PragmaticPulp 5y agoThis isn’t just about hospitals. COVID can produce serious and long lasting effects even if you don’t get hospitalized. Vaccines definitely reduce disease severity.
- DannyCasolaro 5y agoNow that we know it's inevitable that everyone, vaccinated or not, will be infected, is there much evidence that vaccines are reducing the odds of long COVID from a breakthrough case? My understanding is that it can often arise after quite mild cases.
- gus_massa 5y agoSo it's similar to the Simpson's paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox