BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:It’s a much simpler matter to compare deaths from COVID between the group of people vaccinated for COVID and people who weren’t. Suppose 100 people who test positive for the virus are hospitalized, 50 vaxxed and 50 unvaxxed. If 40 of the unvaxxed patients die, but only 10 of the vaxxed patients die, it’s reasonable to conclude that the COVID vaccine saved 40 lives.That's not remotely how it works. Vaccinated individuals mostly die at approximately the same rate as the unvaccinated individuals.
Vaccinated individuals tend to be older than the unvaccinated individuals. And an unvaccinated 75-year-old has about a thousand times more chances of dying if he catches COVID than a 20-year-old does if he catches COVID. And vaccines decrease one's chances of dying from COVID around 20 times, that is, it is as if they make you 20 years younger. A vaccinated 75-year-old has about as much chances of dying if he catches COVID as an unvaccinated 55-year-old has, which is still way more than an unvaccinated 20-year-old.
