“their player vaccination rate is 93 percent ... nearly half of all infected individuals in the league (32 out of 65) were “vaccinated individuals,”
So the 7% of the unvaxxed make up 51% of Covid cases. Isn’t that pretty great evidence of the vaccine working?
Maybe, but maybe not. It depends on a couple different things.
First of all, what do they consider “vaccinated”. Does the 93% mean fully or partially vaccinated? Does the 32 infected number refer to the same thing?
For example, they might mean that 93% of all players have taken at least one shot but 32 of the players were fully vaccinated. The other 33 infected players may have been made up of some combination of partially vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Also, the CDC has said that fully vaccinated individuals should be subject to different PCR testing standards than unvaccinated people. The PCR tests for the unvaxxed can be cycled up to 35-40 times to look for SarsCOV-2 proteins while the vaccinated must only be cycled up to 28 times.
So your saying that 51% of cases of the unvaxed have natural immunity, NICE!
Check your math. 100% of cowboys who tested pos are vaxxed. Your mixing league stats with cowboy stats.
Yes. It would seem to indicate that a person is 13 times more likely to become infected if unvaccinated. In other words, the vaccine is over 90% effective at preventing infection. Unless the death rates don’t track with infection rates, then the vaccine would also be over 90% effective at preventing deaths.
Reports such as this will help sway me toward getting a third jab. A serious question is why the delta variant hasn’t caused more infections among the vaccinated players. Perhaps the delta crisis has been exaggerated. Gee… Who would want to do that?
We are fortunate that the average journalist is so inept that this article contains the data needed to reveal just the opposite of what the journalist intended.