Yet how much worse off would they be had they caught Covid instead of the vaccine?
Confirmed cases cover about ~10% of the global population [0], and it's reasonable to expect the true number is much higher, like ~44% a year ago. [1]
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-covid-cases-re...
[1] https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/estimate-less-half-world-has-had-...