It’s interesting that she would say this on the same day that this information came out of their organization:
CDC: 74% who got Covid-19 and most who were hospitalized in recent analysis had been fully vaccinated.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3980683/posts
Imagine on Big Island there are 100000 old folks and 100000 young folks.
Let’s say the risk of Covid death is .5% for unvaccinated old folks and .1% for vaccinated old folks.
Let’s say the risk of Covid death is .01% for unvaccinated young folks folks and .005% for vaccinated young folks.
Imagine 90% of the old folks get vaccinated and 20% of the young folks get vaccinated.
unvaccinated old dead 10000x.5%=50
unvaccinated young dead 80000x.01%=8
vaccinated old dead 90000x.1%=90
vaccinated young dead 20000x.005%=1
The death toll would be 91 vaccinated, 58 unvaccinated.
Probably because those who got vaccinated were in a high risk group whereas those un-vaccinated do not perceive themselves to be at risk