Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'

Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by vixen99 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @09:09AM (#30036732)

A statistic like this is meaningless unless qualified and supported with a link to a reliable source. All hospitals in the US, UK, European countries, South America, world?

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Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday January 22, 2022 @10:04AM (#30037269)

It's also meaningless unless compared to the population.

"90% of the people in this hospital for COVID today are unvaccinated" is a very different statement when, for hypothetical examples,

- 90% of the people in the local area area are unvaccinated: Hospital population is same as general population.

- 10% of the people in the local area area are unvaccinated: Hospital population is mostly drawn from the unvaccinated.

And points in-between, and the other way (what if - for sake of example only - 95% of local people are unvaccinated?).

And then there are further confounding effects - what if unvaccinated people are younger and than average, as vaccines are given preferentially to older people who are more likely to require a hospital visit in normal times.

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