Most of these type of stories claiming the vaxed represent a bigger number than those unvaxed leave out a very important number - the vaccination rate among the population in question.
Without this number, the rest of the story doesn’t tell you much. For example, if 100% of the people are vaxed than 100% of the people who catch the virus (nobody claims the vaccine is perfect) are the vaxed. But that says nothing about the effectiveness of the vax vs not having the vax.
This article, to its credit, actually does include the percentage of the population that were vaxed. So we can actually make some judgement regarding the effectiveness of the vax. It says....
“New South Wales has a high vaccination rate, with 91.5 percent of residents age 12 and older “fully vaccinated” as of late November.
Among patients hospitalized for the virus whose vaccination history was reported, 82 percent had received two doses – or 87 percent without taking into account kids ineligible for vaccination.
People with two jabs also made up around three-quarters of ICU patients and COVID deaths.”
So if these numbers are correct, in a population that is 91% vaxed, those that caught the virus and were hospitalized, 87 were from the vaxed group.
This tells me that the proportion of those hospitalized is roughly the same as those who were vaxed (87% vs 91%). From this one can conclude that the vax doesn’t do much to keep you out of the hospital, but it also does not increase your chance of getting hospitalized
This assumes that the numbers are correct and that I’m reading it right.
Any feedback would be welcome.
Then what good is it? Especially when you also have to consider those less pervasive side effects that are cropping up?