https://archive.is/94Xop https://archive.is/94Xop Key quote: "The number of Covid patients in US hospitals on January 19 would have peaked at 91,000 instead of

https://archive.is/94Xop https://archive.is/94Xop Key quote: "The number of Covid patients in US hospitals on January 19 would have peaked at 91,000 instead of 161,000 if the US had the same rates of vaccine coverage in each age-group as Denmark, 100,000 if the US had matched the UK, and 109,000 if the US uptake rates looked like Portugal’s, the analysis showed. Across the seven months since July, spanning the Delta and Omicron waves, US daily patient numbers would have averaged 39,000 — rather than the 80,000 recorded — had its vaccination coverage tracked that of Portugal." EDIT, oh, and "Full reproducible R code for this story is available on GitHub", https://github.com/Financial-Times/data-journalism-covid-hospital-counterfactual https://github.com/Financial-Times/data-journalism-covid-hos...