At 85% vax rate with 42x protection you would still expect almost 90% of deaths to be in the unvaccinated.
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.