The Covid death rate is going down
2021-01-07 cases 881k deaths 17k percent 1.93%
2021-04-28 cases 905k deaths 16k percent 1.77%
2021-08-11 cases 700k deaths 11k percent 1.57%
either we are getting better at treating it, herd immunity or the vaccine is working, or a combination of all 3.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-covid-cases-deaths?time=earliest..latest&country=~OWID_WRL
COVID-19 sufferers can reduce their risk of hospitalization and death by up to 85 percent if they receive monoclonal antibody treatments in the early stages of their illness
https://nypost.com/2021/08/24/fauci-early-use-of-monoclonal-antibodies-can-reduce-hospitalization-death/
But are they going down because of better treatments, i.e. once you are hospitalized they take better steps to treat you.
or is it because of herd immunity. The closer we get the lower the number?
Or is it the vaccine. The vaccine would suggest a larger drop in death rate if it was working.
Half the population is vaccinate, would suggest that the death rate should drop by half.
86% of older people are vaccinated, would suggest that there should be a HUGE drop in death rate.
https://usafacts.org/visualizations/covid-vaccine-tracker-states/
Until we reach peak infection rate during this cycle we will not know if the vaccine is working. If we get around the same number of infected as the last cycle and the death rate is about the same as it is now for this cycle. That will indicate that the vaccine isn’t working.
And it doesn’t look like they are tracking vaccinated vs unvaccinated infection cases.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/index.html
Ok so they did a study, with health care professionals, where they divided them up between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Health care professionals are twice as likly to get infected by covid, at a 2.4% rate. Still looking for the actual study.
ok, this is the problem with democrats, because that’s who wrote this. this article, ARTICLE DOES NOT cite the study they claim shows effectiveness.
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/p0514-covid-19-vaccine-effectiveness.html
Ok, found a study. It is not a very strong study. First this is a retroactive study. I.e. they just looked at patients records after the fact. So how did they select the group? why is the group lopsided towards unvaccinated individuals? out of 218 people 130 of them are unvaccinated. That’s 60% unvaccinated. with 40% being vaccinated. All of them are infected. Again this is an after the fact study. This study only shows how sick they got. It doesn’t show anything else.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.28.21261295v1
I’m not sure that is the study the CDC is referring to. The numbers don’t match up. Still looking. All the news articles point to this medrxiv study in Singapore. The percentages are the same but the sample size is not. So, I don’t know what study the CDC is using.
But based on this Singapore study, I would say it has potential to be effective but without understanding how they selected the study group, there is no way to make the comparison. For example, the people that present mild symptoms and are unvaccinated didn’t report or go to the hospital so you have no idea how many there might be. While vaccinated are reporting because they are involved in the process of being vaccinated. And unvaccinated that present with severe symptoms do go to the hospital, so the results are skewed. This is just one situation that I can think of that puts this study in questionable territory.
The death rate and infection rate, along with my previous post on vaccinations by political parties
https://jam-ramblings.blog/wp-admin/post.php?post=96
, is not showing a difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated with regards to infections and death.