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