The case against masks at school

Re:The case against masks at school by ianferrel on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:29PM (#30108562)

The data that is showing 99+% with one or more shots is bad. Lots of second and third doses could not be linked to the original dose and got counted as "first" doses, then the percentage of people with first doses got capped at 99.9% (or something very high) because it would be obviously absurd if 115% of people had one or more doses.

Vaccination rates in liberal states for the elderly are pretty good. But not 99%.

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Re:The case against masks at school by WillPostForFood on Thursday January 27, 2022 @07:55PM (#30109367)

I dug out a more accurate number, 93.6%, from the Washington dashboard. Even at 93.6%, the remaining 6.4% unvaccinated can't overwhelmingly account for hospitalizations even if they are being hospitalized at 7x the rate.

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Emergencies/COVID19/DataDashboard

edit: According to the dashboard, 59.5% of people in the hospital with covid like illness are 60+. That's vaccinated and and unvaccinated combined. We can definitively say that the hospital case load is not overwhelmingly dominated by the elderly unvaccinated.

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Re:The case against masks at school by bradknowles on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:12AM (#30111217)

60% still strikes me as dominating, because the percentage of the US population that is over 60 years of age is way less than 60%.

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Re:The case against masks at school by WillPostForFood on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:06PM (#30118235)

60% is the number for 60+, unvaccinated and 60+ vaccinated. The claim was the 65+ unvaccinated alone were dominating. Can't be true given the numbers. Specifically the claim was "overwhelmingly, screamingly, massively dominated by the elderly unvaccinated".

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Re:The case against masks at school by landemva on Thursday January 27, 2022 @10:51PM (#30110523)

With or 'because of'?

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