Doesn’t the math work something like this: If roughly 75% of Mainers took the jab then this figure of 70% makes it look like the un-jabbed are actually more susceptible to Covid. It’s all relative right. It would be helpful to understand one’s risk level, especially with the new variant on the increase. The statistics all through the fall seemed to be a 75%/25% split of ‘vaccine’ rates and hospitalization rates therefore indicating that no one had superior resistance to Covid. Can you help clarify this? Many thanks for your work and as we head into increased variants it is all the more important.
Thanks for chiming in! If we are using the population rate to point to the "general" risk of serious COVID-19 infection, then you are right. Personally - I put very little stock in the population level rates. There is just not enough known about the group of hospitalizations or deaths. Their ages, general health and if they are in fact hospitalized "for" COVID-19 are all factors that would make one more likely to have a serious case of the virus. Presumably, this data exists. However it is not part of the data set produced by the ME CDC and local hospitals are not making it public. With that in mind, we do know a few things. We can look at the rate of death among those hospitalized. Over the past 4 weeks, 70% of hospitalizations and 70% deaths were fully vaccinated, meaning that of those hospitalized, the vaccine seems to have no effect on mortality rate. If we go back further in the year, since March of 2022, the 73% of cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 were fully vaccinated. Again - ones chance of recovery seems to be unaffected by vaccine status. Back to the population level - these percentages mirror the 76% of ME's population that is fully vaccinated. Of the fully vaccinated, 90% of them have received at least one booster. It may be that the vaccine had some efficacy early on - as recently as a year ago. But the Breakthrough Data suggests that whatever efficacy it had has waned significantly and the boosters have had no effect on the data trend.
Doesn’t the math work something like this: If roughly 75% of Mainers took the jab then this figure of 70% makes it look like the un-jabbed are actually more susceptible to Covid. It’s all relative right. It would be helpful to understand one’s risk level, especially with the new variant on the increase. The statistics all through the fall seemed to be a 75%/25% split of ‘vaccine’ rates and hospitalization rates therefore indicating that no one had superior resistance to Covid. Can you help clarify this? Many thanks for your work and as we head into increased variants it is all the more important.
Thanks for chiming in! If we are using the population rate to point to the "general" risk of serious COVID-19 infection, then you are right. Personally - I put very little stock in the population level rates. There is just not enough known about the group of hospitalizations or deaths. Their ages, general health and if they are in fact hospitalized "for" COVID-19 are all factors that would make one more likely to have a serious case of the virus. Presumably, this data exists. However it is not part of the data set produced by the ME CDC and local hospitals are not making it public. With that in mind, we do know a few things. We can look at the rate of death among those hospitalized. Over the past 4 weeks, 70% of hospitalizations and 70% deaths were fully vaccinated, meaning that of those hospitalized, the vaccine seems to have no effect on mortality rate. If we go back further in the year, since March of 2022, the 73% of cases, hospitalizations and deaths related to COVID-19 were fully vaccinated. Again - ones chance of recovery seems to be unaffected by vaccine status. Back to the population level - these percentages mirror the 76% of ME's population that is fully vaccinated. Of the fully vaccinated, 90% of them have received at least one booster. It may be that the vaccine had some efficacy early on - as recently as a year ago. But the Breakthrough Data suggests that whatever efficacy it had has waned significantly and the boosters have had no effect on the data trend.