These charts show that COVID-19 vaccines are doing their job

[TomCADem]

While the news once again falls into the old false equivalency habit of giving Republicans equal time to spew lies in the face of facts, the truth is getting lost that vaccination saves lives. Yet, you still see Rand Paul prominently featured spewing misinformation about COVID and vaccines.

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https://www.sciencenews.org/article/covid-coronavirus-vaccines-hospital-cases-rates-unvaccinated

As the coronavirus continues to surge across the United States, hospitals are again filling up with ill COVID-19 patients. And the vast majority of those patients are unvaccinated, as two new charts help make exceedingly clear.

One of those charts shows that from January 24 to July 24, vaccinated individuals were hospitalized with COVID-19 at a much lower cumulative rate than unvaccinated individuals. And the difference in rates between the two groups has only grown over time. By late July, a total of about 26 adults per 100,000 vaccinated people had been hospitalized for COVID-19. That’s compared with about 431 hospitalized people for every 100,000 unvaccinated individuals — a rate roughly 17 times as high as for those who were vaccinated. The data come from 13 states, including California, Georgia and Utah.

That trend held when the researchers charted hospitalization rates on a weekly basis too. From January to July, weekly hospitalization rates among unvaccinated people were six to 31 times as high as those in vaccinated people, the researchers report August 29 at medRxiv.org.

The accumulation of hospitalizations in each group over time, which that first chart shows, illustrates the risk of developing severe COVID-19 overall. And its message is clear: If you’re vaccinated during this pandemic, your risk of hospitalization is much, much lower than if you’re not vaccinated. The weekly rate, on the other hand, is a bit like the speedometer on a car — providing a glimpse of what’s happening week by week as the coronavirus spreads. Its message is also clear: The risk of a vaccinated person becoming hospitalized remains low at any given time, while the risk for unvaccinated people can fluctuate, probably as a result of community transmission.

[Jon King]

1. As a youth sports coach, the US population had a lay up, a sitter, a no brainer.

All the adults had to do was pop over to the local CVS and get a free vaccine. Done, game over.

The easiest thing to do....yet the MAGAts had to screw that up too.

[TomCADem]

2. In Florida and Texas, the GOP is trying to Fail Their Way...

…to success by encouraging the broad spread of COVID, which they will then blame on Democrats, minorities, immigrants, etc. For example, in Texas the Lt. Governor is blaming the African American community. In Florida, Republicans are blaming Hispanic immigrants.