At the start of pandemic we could have hoped that it will pass in half a year, in a year or so. Now we know that it is probably here to stay.
So eventually you will get COVID.
Depending on how long has passed after your vaccine, what variation of virus you will get, how old you are and etc will depend if it is more like 5% or 1% or so.
In my office I have 200 or so colleagues. Imagine having 4-5 funerals at the company because of this illness.
> Depending on how long has passed after your vaccine, what variation of virus you will get, how old you are and etc will depend if it is more like 5% or 1% or so.
This is fear-mongering. There is no example of a risk of death post-vaccination that gets this high. The few studies that document a decline in efficacy show a modest decline, against symptomatic illness. The vaccines remain highly effective against severe disease and death.
The article also shows that deaths-per-100k is highly dependent on age. "“Age is our top risk factor for vaccine breakthrough deaths,” said Theresa Sokol, the state epidemiologist in Louisiana, one of the jurisdictions that contributed to the C.D.C. data.". In 12-17 and 18-29, deaths-per-100k are essentially 0 for both vaccinated and unvaccinated. This is fantastic news for kids of grade school age: they can live their lives for the next 20 years without having to worry about covid medical risks.
This is meaningless without context. What percentage of the population is vaccinated? How old are the patients? What percentage of the hospitalized are extremely old/frail/comprosmised?
Remember: if 100% of your population is vaccinated, then 100% of your hospitalizations and deaths will be in vaccinated people.
When both the risks and vaccination rates are significantly different across demographic groups statistics for the whole population are often nearly useless due to Simpson's paradox.
Depending on how we define severe COVID you link is showing between 36% and 44% of the severe COVID patients at the hospital are vaccinated.
That's similar to what they have seen in Israel. As of about a month ago they were seeing about 60% of their severe cases were in vaccinated people.
Sounds pretty bad for vaccines, right? It does until you remember Simpson's paradox and take a finer look at the data [1]. It turns out that the Israel data showed in each age group efficacy against severe COVID ranging from 81.1% to 100%, with above 92% in all the 10 year age groups under 60 and still above 88% is the 10 years groups through 80.
It is very likely a similar thing is going on at the hospital whose data you linked to. That's been the case for every place I've come across in the US that published breakdowns of the stats by age group.
There is no doubt about vaccine efficacy. However it all depends. On your age, on your illnesses, on strains of virus. Who knows what you will get in 2 years.
So people who say that "pfft it is only 2% chance and only if you get" are just denying it.
You will get COVID. Hopefully you get it after a few years when there are not only vaccines but drugs widely available.
A death rate of 4-5 per 200 workers is highly unlikely. According to CDC data the infection fatality rate in a mostly unvaccinated population was 0.06% for the 18-49 age group and 0.6% for the 50-64 age group. The majority of deaths have been among older age groups, who are mostly not working at companies.
Unless you have a significant number of people working in your office over 70 years old, or if half of your colleagues are at least 60, it's more likely that nobody will die than 4-5.
At the start of pandemic we could have hoped that it will pass in half a year, in a year or so. Now we know that it is probably here to stay.
So eventually you will get COVID.
Depending on how long has passed after your vaccine, what variation of virus you will get, how old you are and etc will depend if it is more like 5% or 1% or so.
In my office I have 200 or so colleagues. Imagine having 4-5 funerals at the company because of this illness.