Originally Posted by
Thedude86
I understand what you’re saying. You and the article do make sense. But if the vaccines are supposed to be 95% effective and when in contact with other vaccinated people it’s supposed to be practically 100%, and with 85% of the population vaccinated… those numbers seem awfully high regardless. I’m no calculus major but with those kinds of percentages I would think it should be more like 50 times greater of a chance to be hospitalized if you’re unvaxxed not just 2-3.
Maybe if only 25-50% of the population was vaxxed then your numbers would make more sense.
I think that you’re missing my point. That slide is from AAPS. They are a small group of physicians, who oppose things like medical insurance, so basically no one you would ever actually see. They are taking a small snippet of data that no one would analyze because it’s too small. It’s like looking at over the course of a day’s time and ringing the alarm if 1 person who had been vaccinated got COVID while 0 unvaccinated people did and saying that you are infinitely times more likely to get COVID if you’ve been vaccinated. Their only purpose in showing you that graph over a short period with raw numbers as opposed to normalized data over a longer period is shock value.