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Re:Definition of 'fully vaccinated' could change, CDC chief ... by angelzen on Sunday October 31, 2021 @02:00PM (#29058893)
This is a good report, thanks for sharing. Though would be more informative to also share raw data tables for all the charts.

I dug a bit to double-check the hospitalization rate. The Oct 28 report claims (page 7) "18 Times higher risk of being hospitalized with COVID-19". That's a pretty spectacular number, how did they derive it?

1. The report says "One hundred ninety-one patients are currently hospitalized with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19; of these, 134 (70.2%) are not fully vaccinated.".

2. I found the vaccination rate as 67%, using the dashboard at https://data.ct.gov/stories/s/CoVP-COVID-Vaccine-Distributio....

3. I do a little bit of math.

  pop_rate = pop_cases / pop_count
  pop_cases = pop_case_rate * cases_total
  pop_count = pop_count_rate * pop_total

  risk = unvax_rate / vax_rate 
       = (unvax_rate / unvax_count_rate) / (vax_rate / vax_count_rate)
       = (70.2 / 33) / (29.8 / 67)
       = 4.8x
Your number (5x) is close to what the data indicates compared with what the report claims (18x). Perhaps someone with better fifth grade math skills can riddle me out...

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