Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England

Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England by MatteoFrigo on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:38PM (#28546397)

The PHE report measures both antibodies from natural immunity, and antibodies from (vaccine or natural infection or both). (They don't have a vaccine-only measure.) The former is in the 20% range, depending on age. The latter is in the 97%+ range, again depending on age, reaching essentially 100% for older people.

The big caveat is that the sample population consists of blood donors, which may or may not be representative of the overall population.

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Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England by lamontcg on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:42PM (#28546444)

Are there any under-12 kids in the blood donors?

And yes blood donors aren't representative of the general population due to selection effects.

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Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England by MatteoFrigo on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:46PM (#28546471)

You can read the report, but the blood donor population is 17 years or older.

The result of the report is that some form of immunity exists in 97%+ of the blood donors at least 17 years old, in the UK.

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Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England by lamontcg on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:39PM (#28553975)

And blood donors are either socially responsible (probably vaccinated) or economically disadvantaged (probably exposed).

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Re:Deaths involving Covid-19 by vaccination status, England by mPReDiToR on Friday September 17, 2021 @04:22AM (#28562684)

There is no economic incentive to donate blood in England (probably UK/GB either).

The most you receive is a cup of coffee and a biscuit.

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