12-12-2021, 08:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 12-12-2021, 08:41 PM by backsidebaggie.)
(12-12-2021, 08:32 PM)baggy1 Wrote: Not certain on that one bb, this is where I got my figures from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicatio...ember-2021
Have a look at the 5th slide - that appears to indicate that the vast majority of those resulting in an overnight stay are unvaccinated.
Isn’t that rates per 100k? Whereas the link I posted was totals? Both are government figures.
So if 36% in hospital are unvaccinated, but they make up a smaller percentage of the population, the rates per 100k would still be higher for unvaccinated? That’s why I said it clearly has a positive effect, but not as much as we’re led to believe by some of the lazy headlines of saying the hospitals are “full of unvaxed”. That’s simply not true. It’s 36%. But with 85% adults vaccinated, the rates per 100k are still higher for unvaccinated, therefore showing the vaccine does definitely help. Just not as much as we’re led to believe IMO.