You would have to have around 94% vaccinated to have 25% of deaths be vaccinated at 42x protection. No country has that.
These still make up a substantial proportion of hospitalizations, because Covid is 2–3 orders of magnitude more likely to lead to serious symptoms for this age category, so that vaccinated elderly people have comparable risk to unvaccinated people 30–40 years younger.
If you tally up more age categories, about 92% of people over the age of 35 have been fully vaccinated.
Or flipped around, 80% of unvaccinated people in that county are under the age of 35, 15% are age 35–50, 5% are age 50–65, and essentially none are older than that.
It is amazing that even so, 83% of hospitalizations and 75% of deaths were among the unvaccinated. These vaccines are astonishingly effective!
In UK, for age group >60yo, with similarly high vaccination rates, the percent of vaccinated hospitalizations for this age group is 82.5%.
These numbers inhabit different realities. I cannot think of any reasonable explanation. Some attempts:
* King County is failing to vaccinate the highest risk subpopulation within this age group.
* King County is hospitalizing comparatively vast numbers of unvaccinated elder covid patients.
* King County, UK, or both, is having serious data collection and/or reporting problems.
* UK is using a different vaccine
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/public.health.seattle...
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
Edit. Peeking at the Singapore dashboards, they are much closer to the King County picture than the UK picture.