OpiateKiller
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The important consideration here is age-adjusted rates of breakthrough deaths. If 88% of Vermont residents are vaccinated (the article here is unclear about whether this is referring only to fully vaccinated individuals or not) and 76% of Covid deaths are among the vaccinated, then based only on these data it would seem that the vaccines have only a negligible protection against death from Covid. But, based on the analyses of other jurisdictions, it would seem more likely that (a) these deaths are disproportionately among the eldest Vermont residents and (b) the eldest Vermont residents have a higher vaccination rate than the general population. For example, consider this data from Alberta which I posted in the previous Covid thread. Among those 80 or more years old, during the sample period, 50 fully vaccinated individuals and 61 unvaccinated individuals died from Covid. Although these numbers appear similar, it hides the extremely high vaccination rate among those 80+. When you then look at the rates of death per 100,000, the unvaccinated 80+-year-olds are 9.3 times as likely to die from Covid as vaccinated 80+-year-olds.
I know plenty of people from Vermont and there is absolutely no way their vaccination rate is 88% lol. I live 15 minutes from Vermont them numbers is fucked up