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Edit: I think I misunderstood the graph. It is actually already normalized by the size of each population (Unvaccinated, Half-vaccinated, Fully vaccinated).

If you look at the raw numbers nearly twice as many of the hospitalized are vaccinated.

When taking the vaccination rate into account, the likelihood of hospitalization still seems to be a fifth after vaccination.

But even if the remaining population got vaccinated it wouldn't be enough to drastically reduce the hospital load.



> If you look at the raw numbers nearly twice as many of the hospitalized are vaccinated.

This doesn't mean what you think it means. Imagine if 100% of the population were vaccinated, what percentage of the hospitalized would then be vaccinated?

https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-by-vaccination


the point is the beds are being taken up by the vaccinated. the idea was after vaccination these beds wont have to be taken up by the vaccinated suffering COVID and will be vacant for others suffering other diseases.




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