74% of recent Covid cases in parts of MA were among the vaccinated – CDC study
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Its worth noting...
- Vaccination is not equal to 100% immunity as some folks appear to think.
- Vaccination means a significant reduced risk of getting COVID.
- Vaccination means that if you get COVID your risk for death is significantly lower.
With Delta variants right now, it is worth noting...
- Variants will continue to mutate as a significant % of people go unvaccinated.
- Variants seem to pose higher risk for all, but vaccination still reduces risk.
- Vaccinated folks with a COVID variant are equally contagious - but possibly for a shorter period of time (early days).
Summary: You're not special. Get a vaccination. We are in this together.
Am not interested in rebutting every issue someone flags with this - its a high-level generalization. Am not a doctor etc. Look to CDC for guidance and authority.
I understand, but you have a glaring bit of misinformation:
> - Variants will continue to mutate as a significant % of people go unvaccinated.
The virus mutates in vaccinated people as well. If the entire population was vaccinated, we would still get new variants, mutating enough to defeat vaccines.
I can tell who has been recommended Darkhorse podcast pretty quickly. I've listened to it too.
My understanding is that changes to the spike protein significant enough to escape vaccines entirely are likely to also render it unable to enter the cell.
No, we’ve been told that the mRNA vaccines are, based on the current evidence, both “ highly effective against hospitalization and death for a variety of strains, including Alpha (B.1.1.7), Beta (B.1.351), Gamma (P.1), and Delta (B.1.617.2)” and that they make the vaccinated “less likely than unvaccinated persons to acquire SARS-CoV-2 or to transmit it to others”, though they have “lower effectiveness against confirmed infection and symptomatic disease caused by the Beta, Gamma, and Delta variants compared with the ancestral strain and Alpha variant.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/science-br...
When we get data that contradicts what we expect, it needs to be taken seriously, it needs to be broadcast, it needs to be followed up on, and the correct conclusions need to be drawn from experts in a transparent way.
Sure.
> If 69% of people are vaccinated, I would expect <69% of recent COVID cases to be from the vaccinated.
I would expect both vaccination and detection of cases to overrepresent people with better access to and inclination toward medical services
In addition vaccinations are biased towards the elderly, and (because vaccines haven't been approved, even on an emergency basis, for this population) completely exclude young children. This also biases the figures.
Basically, the media reporting of “contradictory” findings is pretty much completely abuse of statistics rather than actual contradictory findings.
A decent discussion is here: https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-07-27/covid-19-infection...
That said, I don’t think the data from the OP’s CDC article is a case of Simpson’s paradox. The quoted statistic in the CDC article is that 74% of infected people were vaccinated. I am comparing that to the vaccination rate in MA of 69% (also from the article). The denominator in one stat is a strict subset of the denominator of the second stat. Simpson’s paradox requires disjoint denominators.
So that being the case, I would still like for actual experts to follow up on this data and come to some conclusion.
If less people have covid, less severely, for less time, that is less mutation potential.
Have major mutations been noted after vaccines are administered in the population?
Can you provide a source for this?
To be clear, I’m absolutely not arguing that you’re wrong. What I am saying is that I’ve not seen a source for this oft-repeated assertion, and that the data in the linked article contradicts it - a larger proportion of people in that cohort who were fully vaccinated got COVID than those those who were unvaccinated.
It seems like a glaring omission to me that they didn’t enumerate the number of unvaccinated people who had recovered from previous COVID infections. If that number is substantial it would explain why the proportions are so different from what you might expect.
Which references a cdc documebt
Why is that not clear to most people opposing vaccination on these grounds, is beyond me.
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