Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Vaccinated Making Up Higher Proportion of COVID-19 Metrics in US

Vaccinated people are more likely than the unvaccinated to be a COVID-19 case, hospitalization, or death in 25 states

  • The Epoch Times compiled the data from state health department websites and databases.
  • In 14 of the states, a higher percentage of vaccinated people have tested positive, been hospitalized, or died with COVID than the percentage of the population that was unvaccinate
  • 11 other states, vaccinated people made up the majority of one or more metrics
  • Statistics underline how vaccines have increasingly performed worse as newer virus variants emerged
  • They are clear evidence that the vaccines are not working to prevent disease and death

Data Reporting

  • Most states report at least one metric (cases, hospitalizations, deaths) by vaccination status.
  • Unvaccinated: people who have gotten zero shots
  • Partially vaccinated: those who have received one dose of the Moderna or Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines
  • Fully vaccinated: complete series of vaccines completed
  • Boosted: people with one extra shot on top of the primary series
  • Not fully vaccinated: anybody who has not received a primary series, regardless of whether they've received a booster
  • Vaccinated: any person who has received 1 dose of vaccine

Exceeded Expectations

  • The percentage of one or more so-called breakthrough metrics-post-vaccination cases, hospitalizations, and/or deaths-in recent months exceeded the percentage of the population that was vaccinated or fully vaccinated.
  • In most cases, that was a single metric. But in several, it was multiple, and in one, all three. All data are from 2022.

Adjusted Data

  • Some states adjust the data before releasing it to eliminate differences that result from one population being different from another
  • The most common adjustment is for age
  • After adjusting for age, the rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in Wisconsin are higher for the unvaccinated than for the vaccinated
  • Other states have reported similar trends

Majority Vaccinated

  • In 11 other states, the vaccinated made up a majority of at least one metric, but the proportion of vaccinated did not exceed the percentage of vaccinated
  • Preference was for data in June, followed by data in July
  • Metrics with unvaccinated comprising a majority are not listed
  • Arizona+** (May): 62 percent breakthrough cases; 56.4 percent breakthrough hospitalizations
  • Fully vaccinated as of June 1
  • Connecticut+ (July 14-July 20): 2,116 breakthrough cases (56 percent)
  • Georgia+ (June 4-July 1): 57,489 breakthrough cases, 142 breakthrough deaths (54 percent) Fully vaccinated at the time

Other Studies

  • Vaccine-provided protection began waning against infection and, to a lesser extent, against severe illness in 2021, when the Delta variant was dominant
  • Since Omicron emerged in December 2021, that trend has quickened
  • The vaccines have bestowed lower levels of initial protection, and the protection drops faster than before
  • Research on booster effectiveness has largely shown an initial increase in protection, followed by a quick decline
  • Other research has indicated that vaccinated people are, at a certain point, more likely than unvaccinated people to get infected

Remaining States

  • Of the remaining states, eight reported the unvaccinated making up a majority of each metric.
  • Rates are listed when raw numbers were not available. When rates are listed, they are age-adjusted.
  • June is preferred, followed by July. June is still working on filling records requests by press time.

CDC Reporting

  • The CDC still presents data on its website for COVID-19 cases and deaths by vaccination status. The data, based on statistics from 31 health departments, has repeatedly been offered by the agency as evidence of vaccine effectiveness.
  • But the agency has stopped listing fully vaccinated people. Instead, it lists only the unvaccinated and the boosted.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/exclusive-vaccinated-making-up-higher-proportion-of-covid-19-metrics-in-us_4680687.html 

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