The case against masks at school

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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