In the data they have they found that:
1. For all unvaccinated people, they had 38,964 covid-related deaths and 65,170 of other, non-covid-related deaths of unvaccinated people.
2. For all vaccinated people 21 days or more after second dose they found 458 covid-related and 57,263 non-covid-related deaths.
It doesn't matter when these were recorded (unless we want to account for Delta, but there is not enough data for this here).
So unless we are seeing huge increase in non-covid-related deaths of vaccinated people, this data suggests that vaccination makes it many, many times less likely that you are going to die of covid as compared to you dying to other things.
Which I think is wonderful news to see in actual numbers from a large sample of data gathered over longer period of time.
If that's is not a clear indication to you then I don't know what is.
I'm not disputing that the vaccines are effective at preventing death, but that doesn't mean that we can just point to any stat that looks good and celebrate without considering what it actually means.
Also there are more people vaccinated than not now so that would also skew the data to make a direct comparison look worse.
Unless it's happening within that 21-day window, which is the claim I've been seeing elsewhere for around a month now.
So,50X to 100X reduction in deaths versus all-cause
In unvaccinated people 37.4% of all deaths was from COVID (38,964/104,134)
In fully vaccinated people 0.8% of all deaths was from COVID (458/57,721)
This is all amazing news! However we still don't know how much worse the vaccines are against the Delta variant, since most deaths during the period were not from the new variant. It can't be too bad though.
Because if you can't do that you can compare data even with the status and vaccination rates changing over time.
So even if we lump together all different cases at different times saying that person in this class of people had less than 1% of chance of dying to covid vs. another class where you had 30% of chance of dying to covid is a clear indication that one class was much more resistant to dying than other.
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccinations
Vaccinated are less likely to die of Covid-19, but more likely to die? Not very reassuring.
It is also not surprising if healthy people are less likely to get vaccinated.