In Texas, COVID Hospitalization Rate Is 185x Higher for Unvaccinated People.

[TomCADem]

The COVID death rate is also 85x higher for unvaccinated people, which is amazing given that about 45 percent of Texas's population is vaccinated. Yet, you still the news focusing on breakthrough cases, rather than analyzing the wide differences between vaccinateed and unvaccinated people in terms of hospitalization and death rates.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/10/us/covid-breakthrough-infections-vaccines.html

Serious coronavirus infections among vaccinated people have been relatively rare since the start of the vaccination campaign, a New York Times analysis of data from 40 states and Washington, D.C., shows. Fully vaccinated people have made up as few as 0.1 percent of and as many as 5 percent of those hospitalized with the virus in those states, and as few as 0.2 percent and as many as 6 percent of those who have died.

There is still a lot we do not know about so-called breakthrough infections — when fully inoculated people contract the virus. And there is some evidence that these cases are becoming more common as the more transmissible Delta variant surges. While vaccines have done a remarkable job at protecting a vast majority of people from serious illness, the data in the Times analysis generally spanned the period from the start of the vaccination campaign until mid-June or July, before the Delta variant became predominant in the United States.

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As more people get shots, the percentage of hospitalizations and deaths among fully vaccinated people should rise. This may seem counterintuitive, so it’s important to understand why.

In a state with a high vaccination rate, a higher percentage of breakthroughs may simply reflect that fully vaccinated people are a bigger chunk of the population, or that there are few hospitalizations and deaths overall. Imagine a state where just two people are hospitalized but both are vaccinated — breakthroughs would account for 100 percent of the hospitalizations in that state, even though these cases were very rare.

[mucifer]

1. I always say the more people vaccinated, the higher percent of those dying with covid

will be vaccinated. It's just math. If 90% of the people are vaccinated you will get more and more over time of people who have serious pre existing disease and the elderly who just can't fight off covid who have been vaccinated. If 100% of the people are vaccinated, 100% of the breakthrough deaths will be from vaccinated people mostly in a high risk category.

We have to remember people at risk die from the flu after vaccination.

It's about protecting those at risk by getting as many people vaccinated as possible.

[TomCADem]

2. However, The Total Number of Cases Should Go Down

Ideally, you get to a point where the only people who are dying from COVID are people who are vaccinated because 100 percent of people who can be vaccinated are vaccinated.

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[mucifer]

3. As long as that crap doesn't keep mutating like the flu. But, yeah.