What? They are all hospitalized and we must assume the primary reason is COVID as it is not stated in the article. If 70% of the sick people are vaxxed, that is almost 3 times more than the unvaccinated.
Say you have 80 vaccinated people and 20 unvaccinated people with the rona, and 50 people in the hospital. If 70% of those in the hospital are vaccinated, it means there are 35 vaccinated and 15 unvaccinated in the hospital. That's a hospitalization rate of 35 / 80 = 43.75% for vaccinated people and 15 / 25 = 60% for unvaccinated.
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.
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