> Just look up the hospitalization and death rates for folks vaccinated and not. It is stark in difference. You cannot simply compare those numbers because the

> Just look up the hospitalization and death rates for folks vaccinated and not. It is stark in difference. You cannot simply compare those numbers because the two groups differ in many other respects beyond their vaccination status. This came out today: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2306683 Correpondence published in NEJM regarding the landmark study that found that the first booster dose reduced Covid-related mortality by 90%. It turns out that it also reduced non-Covid-related mortality by a similar amount. So either the booster short is a magic elixir that reduces all deaths, or the boosted, as a group, were healthier at the outset. In the response of the original authors they mention that > However, boosters were generally not administered to hospitalized patients who were at high risk for death from any cause. I think you can guess how it affected the hospitalization and death rates of the boosted vs. the unboosted. For some reason, this was not mentioned in the original study. And the main point mentioned by the original authors in their response: > However, a strong, unexplained association between the use of the booster and lower mortality not related to Covid-19 remains. > During the B.1.617.2 (delta) wave in the United States, similar associations were observed between the use of mRNA vaccines and lower mortality not related to Covid-19 and mortality from any cause.