Re:How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
by leereeves on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:02AM
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> Far more people are getting infected but our hospitals are not (yet) being overwhelmed.
That makes sense. I think it's clear that vaccination makes the infection less severe and reduces hospitalization rates. But there's also a hope, which is the basis for a lot of policy decisions, that vaccination will reduce the chance of being infected, perhaps even eliminate the illness, and Iceland's data doesn't support that.
> If you read further down in the statistics data there is a breakdown by population age.
Only for isolation and for cumulative cases, not for current cases.
> You need to take into account the COVID is less infectious for the young.
Source please. I haven't heard that before; though it is less severe for the young.
Re:How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says
by meheleventyone on Friday August 13, 2021 @03:07AM
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> Iceland's data doesn't support that.
You do you but that isn’t actually correct.
> “Diagnosis of infection is three-times more likely in the non-vaccinated than the vaccinated, the likelihood of hospital admission is some four-times higher, and the frequency of intensive care is five times more common in the non-vaccinated than the vaccinated. So, we are seeing that vaccination is protecting against infection and especially against serious illness, which should be a spur to everyone to get vaccinated who has not been vaccinated so far,” Þórólfur said.
If you read further down in the statistics data there is a breakdown by population age. You need to take into account the COVID is less infectious for the young. Iceland is also going to expand vaccination for the 12-16 age group and give people who got the less effective vaccine a booster. Not coincidentally the population with the largest set of infections mixes the most and got the Jannsen vaccine, those 20-30.