Explain in layman’s terms what this means.
The way I read it is vaccination rates have very little to do with case rates. For exampl, AL has the lowest vaccination rate but lowest case rates and Maine one of the highest vax rates but ranked closer to the top (18) with cases.
It basically means that, other relevant aspects being fairly equal (which of course they are not) then if vaccines are effectual then there should be an overall corresponding smaller % of positive Covid rates. Explain more later as now I want to help fix a SUV.
Not much actually, it’s an apples and oranges comparison. The vaccination rate is by whole populace, the positive test rate is only by people who got tested. So people who have no reason to get tested aren’t covered in the second stat, so we don’t really know what the general population rate is. Which has been the statistical problem throughout all this.