The UK has published it latest weekly vaccine surveillance report and there are some really astounding things to comment and share. The 1st thing that jumped out was the revision in how table 12 is presented. This table shows the rates/100K of cases, hospitalizations and deaths. In previous reports, it showed unvaccinated rates vs. rates among the twice dosed population. In the most recent report, it replaces the twice dosed with the triple dosed:
It’s amazing they would do that considering such a large proportion of the population would not be represented in the data so they would have no idea about their risk level.
Also: I don't believe who/how many are dying changed that drastically - I ran the numbers just now, for this newest report, the deaths per 100k for 60-69 year olds with 2+ vaccinations (the same metric they used to offer the week before...) is about 5.6/100k. The same number from week 2 was 4.9. The overall death rate by their previous stats has not greatly increased. The reason the numbers for only 2 vaccinations look so crazy and swung so fast is that the population of unboosted-but-doubly-vaxxed people is small.
I'm honestly amazed they were willing to break out the numbers in a way that allows us to compute these boggling stats for unboosted vaxxed people. Did they do it to avoid making it very clear that vaccines are now positively correlated with catching covid?
Is it possible that a whole bunch of non-boosted people went out and got boosted as a result of being scared about Omicron? The 14 day immune suppression combined with omicron could increase severity. As you say, the refusal to publish the numbers in a way that even allows these questions to be raised, let alone confronting it head on is really distressing.
It’s amazing they would do that considering such a large proportion of the population would not be represented in the data so they would have no idea about their risk level.
That’s stunning when you think about it.
Robert Clark
Also: I don't believe who/how many are dying changed that drastically - I ran the numbers just now, for this newest report, the deaths per 100k for 60-69 year olds with 2+ vaccinations (the same metric they used to offer the week before...) is about 5.6/100k. The same number from week 2 was 4.9. The overall death rate by their previous stats has not greatly increased. The reason the numbers for only 2 vaccinations look so crazy and swung so fast is that the population of unboosted-but-doubly-vaxxed people is small.
I'm honestly amazed they were willing to break out the numbers in a way that allows us to compute these boggling stats for unboosted vaxxed people. Did they do it to avoid making it very clear that vaccines are now positively correlated with catching covid?
What better way to scare the double-jabbed into jab #3 than dump all the risk of said jab onto the very people they're trying to scare.
Gato also boosted (pun intended) Joel Smalley's article on the Alberta data from last week. They can hide a lot of ugly in that two-week window.
Is it possible that a whole bunch of non-boosted people went out and got boosted as a result of being scared about Omicron? The 14 day immune suppression combined with omicron could increase severity. As you say, the refusal to publish the numbers in a way that even allows these questions to be raised, let alone confronting it head on is really distressing.
Excellent, thanks!