Except the link I posted in my post #30 was percentages, with less than 1 % of hospitalizations and deaths from unvaccinated and the rest, the 9overwhelming majority from the fully vaccinated.
SmokingJoe wrote: “Except the link I posted in my post #30 was percentages, with less than 1 % of hospitalizations and deaths from unvaccinated and the rest, the 9overwhelming majority from the fully vaccinated.”
Percentages aren’t rates. The criteria should be cases per hundred thousand.
Look at it this way. You’re objective is to minimize the odds that you’ll get the virus.
Suppose their are 10,000 vaccinated and 5000 unvaccinated. Suppose further that there are 500 cases, 300 vaccinated and 200 unvaccinated. The percentages: 2/3 of the cases are vaccinated and only 1/3 are unvaccinated. These are the numbers commonly cited by the anti-vaxxers when they claim the chances of getting infected are much higher among the vaccinated. However, the rate of infection among the vaccinated is 0.03 and the rate of infection among the unvaccinated is 0.04. IOW, the chances of a unvaccinated person catching covid is 1.333 times the chances of a vaccinated person.
total numbers are only good for comparison when the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations are of approximately equal size.
Do you see why talking total cases isn’t as important as case rates.?
Do you see why those talking total cases are misleading you? Now why would they do that? And, more importantly, why would you let them?