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Originally Posted by pip08456
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That's some good data right there on effectiveness of vaccines. It looks like the hospitalisation rate for the most vulnerable
unvaccinated group aged (80+ years) is roughly 112.9 per 100,000.
The ONS estimates the total population of England aged 80+ is 2,855,599
so if vaccinations were not present, that would be 3,224 hospitalisations between weeks 32 and 25. Instead, there were 1,146.
Of course, if we went the other way and (theoretically) vaccinated everyone, the hospitalisation rate of 37.4 per 100,000 would give you 1,068.
Vaccines work - they look to have prevented 2,078 hospitalisations over that period with a further 78 possible if we got to 100% vaccination. Nice!
(this report is a bit of a fudge as it uses the 'within 28 days of a positive specimen' measure and the general hospitalisation rate of 80+ is very high anyway so it may be the case that the vaccine is more protective than my estimates show as those protected may not present at hospital for a COVID related reason)