Predictably you’ve missed the point entirely.
A good measure of Vaccine efficacy is how many of the vaxxed are reaching the ICU’s(where 80 percent of all Covid who get there are goners) I know this to be particularly true in my area where I work in an ICU and a colleague across town verifies our numbers as similar to theirs.
Nearly all ICU patients we have been getting with covid of late are unvaxxed. Some 99 percent...yeah sounds unbelievable until I explain that of all the covid our hospital has been getting in...90 percent are unvaxxed and 10 percent have been at least partially or fully vaxxed. The 10 percent all generally come in to the less critical care areas, get some extra support, steroids, antibiotics, maybe a few of the new “vir” meds they are trying out, get much better after a few days and go home. We get our ICU covids by and large from the 90 percent who came to hospital unvaxxed, who got only sicker on the general floors.
Yes that messes up some of the narratives being preached about tons of vaxxed people getting sick and dying. Maybe other areas have more virulent strains than Central Virginia. Also, Virginia was listed on one FREEPER map as a green state showing over all covid cases as dropping and it appears to be the case in real time as I see it ...but we have bad days where several just come in sick as crap and on those days we see others just reach the end and several may die over a day in our ICU. We lose 80 percent of the covids that reach us. No I don’t think all that could have been done for these folks before the ICU had been done and some of them also waited way too long to receive any sort of hope from their delayed treatment. There is still a lot of smoke and fog and we’re not sure where all the bullets are being fired from, symbolically and politically speaking...certainly some from friendly fire.
“why are they only looking at number of cases?” Because everyone takes whatever data (which is totally unreliable on it’s face) supports their position. At it’s base, if you don’t have a reliable test for COVID positivity, and you don’t have a uniform set of reporting standards, whatever numbers you get are going to be useless.
why are they only looking at number of cases?
Because that’ what the author wanted to know.
Behavior changes may account for it. People are starting to take more risks, and vaccinated people are probably taking more than non-vaccinated.
EVERY “vax”d person I know is STILL a skeert Karen....masking up IF they do go out, anywhere.
Most are avoiding large crowds, shopping at off hours, etc.
The UN-“vax”d have been taking proper preventatives and/or supplements, have robust and fully intact immune systems and, aren’t spreaders.
And....
Plenty of reports on how these “vax”d are the majority of hospitalized/death cases.
“… Because if it’s true that the vaccine reduces the severity of the illness, then why are they only looking at number of cases?”
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Because it advances their agenda… and there are a variety of agendas being advanced. The main agenda, IMHO, is to keep the fear porn going to keep the controls and lockdowns going. “Cases” means nothing beyond testing positive on a test that can detect small remnant fragments of a virus. Such tests are frequently given to the non sick (e.g., “hey, someone at your school tested positive so you need to be tested”).
Choose to get vaccinated or choose not to get vaccinated, but let’s all get on with our lives in a manner we choose.
I can tell you from the department of health data I’ve looked at for GA, TN and SC, that the vaccines are having either no discernable effect or a worse effect on hospitalizations or deaths despite claims otherwise.
GA- September 28
Breakthrough cases
Vx’d hospitalizations/breakthrough cases 3.77%
Vx’d deaths/breakthrough cases 1.18%
Unvaxxed cases (includes partial vaxxed and vaxxed <14 days)
Unvx’d hospitalizations/unvaxxed cases 4.38%
Unvx’d deaths/unvaxxed cases 1.20%
https://dph.georgia.gov/document/document/covid-19-among-fully-vaccinated-people-graphic/download
SC - October 1
Breakthrough cases
Vx’d hospitalizations/breakthrough cases 8.55%
Vx’d deaths/breakthrough cases 2.51%
All cases
Hospitalizations/all cases 3.38%
Deaths/all cases 1.46%
https://scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-data/south-carolina-county-level-data-covid-19
https://scdhec.gov/covid19/covid-19-data/breakthrough-cases-tracking-disease-infection-after-vaccination
TN - September 29
Breakthrough cases
Vx’d hospitalizations/breakthrough cases 1.97%
Vx’d deaths/breakthrough cases 0.81%
All cases
Hospitalizations no data available
Deaths/all cases 1%
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/health/documents/cedep/novel-coronavirus/CriticalIndicatorReport.pdf
I plan to do this analysis for every state that breaks out data for the vaccinated when I have time.