New Zealand has approx 5,000,000 people and 93% or 4,650,000 vaxxed and 350,000 unvaxxed. 75% of those 8 in the hospital are vaccinated, it means there are 6 vaccinated, 1 unknown and 1 unvaxxed. That is a hospitalization rate of 6/4,650,000 =1.29e-6% for vaccinated people and 1/350,000 =2.85e-6% for unvaxxed. While the percentage is higher is it really an incentive to get an experimental vaccine to guard against a hospitalization rate of .00000285%?
While the percentage is higher is it really an incentive to get an experimental vaccine to guard against a hospitalization rate of .00000285%?
The hospitalization rate isn't the hospitalized divided by the population, it's the hospitalized divided by the number infected with covid.
They only publish , not who was vaccinated. 678 tested positive from the 17th to the 23rd. We don't know the vaxxed rate of the 678. If we use the reported percentage, the vaxxed rate of hospitalization is 6/508 =.011% and unvaxxed is 1/81 = .012%. Only a .001% difference.
You can't work backwards like that. When you assume the reported percentages of hospitalized apply to the infection rate, what you're really doing is just assuming the hospitalization rates are equal. In other words, you're making an assumption about the dependent variable, which ruins your analysis.
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