CV and mad panic behaviour

[Mav]

Just read that half the recent deaths in England of Covid19 were people who had been vaccinated. Its confusing with conflicting data/opinions to make informed decisions...

As I posted a few days ago, this article addresses that observation: The truth about what vaccines are achieving, from a country getting it right, SMH.

Of the 92,000 Delta cases, 1320 people were admitted to hospital. Only 190 had been double vaccinated.

Sadly 117 people died – more than half of whom were partially or fully vaccinated. This sounds worrying but here again another complex story sits behind the headline number.

David Spiegelhalter, the chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication at Cambridge, and Anthony Masters, a statistical ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, have a simple explanation for why so many fully vaccinated people died: the vaccines are not perfect and older people will always be at most risk.

“The risk of dying from COVID-19 is extraordinarily dependent on age: it halves for each six to seven year age gap,” they wrote in The Guardian. “This means that someone aged 80 who is fully vaccinated essentially takes on the risk of an unvaccinated person of around 50 – much lower, but still [it’s] not nothing, and so we can expect some deaths.”

And nobody in England aged under 50 and double jabbed has died from the Delta variant this year.

Unfortunately, vaccinating the elderly doesn’t give them the same immunity as a vaccinated young person.