“Now an infectious disease background would be helpful to discuss why something might be misleading in the numbers...but I don’t hear that.”
Well if someone with a virology background were writing the report they probably would mention that Delta appeared in India before the vaccines were even released. Can’t have that, it spoils the story.
They might also mention that Delta and Omicron elude the vaccines due to having spike proteins sufficiently different than the Alpha spike used to create the vaccines.
And they might mention that RNA viruses like Covid are the kings of transcription error, which is what results in mutations. The existence of vaccines can’t prevent or accelerate that.
Someone with an immunology background might mention.. during the r and d stages of vaccine development a hyperviralized virus is created then tested for efficacy. There a was a pfizer lab in S Africa. Lemme guess no vaccine labs in india.