Originally posted by tabibito
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Crunching those numbers with some math finds it implies that if a person takes the vaccine it reduces their chances of being hospitalized with covid by around 70% compared to a non-vaccinated person.
A confounding factor is that the elderly are known to be vastly more likely to get seriously ill or die from covid than children, that is why the elderly are being vaccinated first and why most countries don't seem sure if they'll ever bother to vaccinate children for covid. So the raw statistics would tend to look far more unfavorable to the vaccines than if you did a properly controlled sample for age etc, as the vaccine is trying to give protection to the most-at-risk groups. So, actually, the vaccines would be doing far better than the above 70% reduction in hospital admissions if that were accounted for.
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