Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 percent

Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by sfusato on Monday December 12, 2022 @08:05AM (#33954229)

The "original strain" was already gone by the time Australia started vaccinating.

Input Australia on https://ourworldindata.org/covid-vaccinations and have a look for yourself.

Then again, we were always behind each and every variant, always following our tail when it came to it.

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Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by viraptor on Monday December 12, 2022 @03:21PM (#33959709)

Unfortunate phrasing, i meant the pre-omicron strains rather than original, since that's when the effectiveness changed most drastically. Up to and including Delta we still got 95+% effectiveness against hospitalisation (https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/covid-19-vaccines/advice-...) and the omicron did not hit until late Dec '21. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/datablog/2021/dec/23/how-m...)

By December we were already just doing the long tail of vaccinations getting to that 95% in Feb (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-inter...) So while I agree we had issues with the rollout, I don't agree "we were always behind each and every variant".

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Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by wellthatsawrap2 on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:35AM (#33955754)

That's ok. Big pharma still gets paid for every jab, regardless if it actually works.

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Re:Australia: Excess deaths in 2022 'incredibly high' at 13 ... by collyw on Monday December 12, 2022 @11:25AM (#33956534)

Record profits for Pfizer, while nurses got a clap.

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