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Originally Posted by wazu
So 96% of people who were fully vaccinated died of COVID? Or is it the much better, but still absolutely horrible number of 4%?
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Here's what I think it means.
Imagine that you have 1 million people who have been vaccinated and 1 million people who haven't. They all get exposed to covid at the same rate. Some of them repel the virus, some get mildly sick, some get really sick.
At the end of the line, 1,000 of the unvaccinated group eventually dies as a result.* 40 people in the unvaccinated group eventually dies.
1-40/1000 = 96 percent fewer deaths.
So the 96 percent doesn't relate to actual deaths or death rates. It's the ratio of deaths that you get by comparing two populations of vaccinated and unvaccinated.
* - This is just a hypothetical number. I don't know the actual expected deaths.