The problem is that the data referenced in the article he
didn't read directly contradicts his point. No, the vaccinated and unvaccinated are not having similar outcomes with the damn virus
. I took the data points from the charts in the article and reproduced them here:
| Unvaccinated per 100K | Vaccinated per 100K |
COVID-19 cases per 100,000 | 805 | 97 |
COVID-19 hospitalizations per 100,000 people | 40 | 3 |
COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 people | 2 | .25 |
Only on BGOL can someone look at this data and conclude that they should remain unvaccinated
More data:
- 226,972 laboratory-confirmed breakthrough cases of COVID-19 among fully-vaccinated people in New York State, which corresponds to 1.8% of the population of fully-vaccinated people 12-years or older.
- 12,916 hospitalizations with COVID-19 among fully-vaccinated people in New York State, which corresponds to 0.10% of the population of fully-vaccinated people 12-years or older.
Cases and hospitalizations by vaccination status
coronavirus.health.ny.gov
Like I have said several times before, if it makes sense to you that the 1.8% of breakthrough infections are
actually causing the other 98%, I have a bridge you will love for sale over the East River.
The unvaccinated had some protection from other variants provided that they have recently recovered from illness. With the Omicron variant, the data doesn't look so good:
The
new report (Report 49) from the Imperial College London COVID-19 response team estimates that the risk of reinfection with the Omicron variant is 5.4 times greater than that of the Delta variant.
This implies that the protection against reinfection by Omicron afforded by past infection may be as low as 19%.
Conversely, look at the data for the vaccinated who have received the booster:
Depending on the estimates used for vaccine effectiveness against
symptomatic infection from the Delta variant, this translates into vaccine effectiveness estimates against symptomatic Omicron infection of between
0% and 20% after two doses, and between 55% and 80% after a booster dose. Similar estimates were obtained using genotype data, albeit with greater uncertainty.
The Omicron variant largely evades immunity from past infection or two vaccine doses according to the latest Imperial modelling.
www.imperial.ac.uk
Notice, the focus for the vaccinated is on
symptomatic infection. The next few weeks are going to test science/reason versus bullshit. I really hope that people take the steps necessary to protect themselves and families and don't fall for some of the games people on here play...