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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by 34679 on Monday August 23, 2021 @01:53PM (#28279528)
3.2 per 100,000 is not "a double digit percentage".

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/08/20/1029628...

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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @02:02PM (#28279664)
A 0.0032% hospitalization rate doesn't pass the smell test. That's hundreds of times less than the reported fatality rate!
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by 34679 on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:22PM (#28280709)
Call Israel and tell them they got it wrong.
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by seoaeu on Monday August 23, 2021 @04:28PM (#28281480)
Ok, you're clearly a troll. After all the reporting from the last year and a half, no one could seriously believe that the entire population of San Fransisco catching covid would result in fewer than 200 hospital admissions
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Re:FDA Approves First Covid-19 Vaccine by detaro on Monday August 23, 2021 @05:00PM (#28281866)
a) that's the <60y number only

b) Isn't that "per 100,000 inhabitants", not "per 100,000 who catch the disease"?

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