- 07 Sep 2021 17:14
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We've been repeatedly told things (from the US) like "98 percent of hospitalizations are unvaccinated", but is this type of talk really true?
To get a better picture of this, I think it is better to look at a country like Singapore, which would be less likely to be biased by political narratives.
Mr Ong said that overall, about 70 per cent of seniors aged 70 and above were vaccinated while more than 85 per cent of those between 60 and 69 years old had received their two vaccine doses.
Covid-19: Half of Singapore’s population fully vaccinated, but 200,000 seniors still yet to get jabs - TODAY (todayonline.com) July 20, 2021
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/c ... t-get-jabs
In Singapore, vaccinated people made up three-quarters of recent Covid-19 cases, but few fell ill | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeas ... ers-recent
Singapore - The Ministry of Health on September 6, 2021 confirmed 241 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, taking the country's total case count to 68,901.
Of them, 235 are locally transmitted, including 110 unlinked infections. Among the cases are six patients above the age of 70 who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, and are at risk of serious illness, said the Ministry of Health.
At least 66,600 cases in Singapore, or over 99 per cent of the overall total, have fully recovered from their infection and have been discharged from the hospital.
As of Sunday, 653 cases are currently warded, most of whom are well and under observation.
There are currently 24 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation and five in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Of those who have fallen very ill, 22 are patients above the age of 60, of whom 11 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, said the Ministry.
Six cases are imported, of whom four were detected upon their arrival here while one developed symptoms during their stay-home notice or isolation period.
241 new COVID cases in Singapore, including 110 unlinked (msn.com)
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapor ... ar-AAO97q8
So out of 235 cases of infections, and only looking at the 70-and-above age category, only 6 of them were unvaccinated!
(In 2020, residents aged 65 years and above made up 15.2 percent of the total resident population in Singapore.
15.2 percent of 235 comes out to about 35.7 , so we can still see that very few of them were unvaccinated)
Do you notice anything here? Only 6 out of maybe 30 or 35 elderly hospitalization cases were unvaccinated, but 70% of elderly people in this country were vaccinated.
From these statistics, it's definitely not looking like vaccination offers a protective effect for the elderly against requiring hospitalization.
22 out of the 24 cases where people got very sick were over the age of 60.
This is equivalent to 91.6%.
To get a better picture of this, I think it is better to look at a country like Singapore, which would be less likely to be biased by political narratives.
Mr Ong said that overall, about 70 per cent of seniors aged 70 and above were vaccinated while more than 85 per cent of those between 60 and 69 years old had received their two vaccine doses.
Covid-19: Half of Singapore’s population fully vaccinated, but 200,000 seniors still yet to get jabs - TODAY (todayonline.com) July 20, 2021
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/c ... t-get-jabs
In Singapore, vaccinated people made up three-quarters of recent Covid-19 cases, but few fell ill | South China Morning Post (scmp.com)
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeas ... ers-recent
Singapore - The Ministry of Health on September 6, 2021 confirmed 241 new COVID-19 cases in Singapore, taking the country's total case count to 68,901.
Of them, 235 are locally transmitted, including 110 unlinked infections. Among the cases are six patients above the age of 70 who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, and are at risk of serious illness, said the Ministry of Health.
At least 66,600 cases in Singapore, or over 99 per cent of the overall total, have fully recovered from their infection and have been discharged from the hospital.
As of Sunday, 653 cases are currently warded, most of whom are well and under observation.
There are currently 24 cases of serious illness requiring oxygen supplementation and five in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Of those who have fallen very ill, 22 are patients above the age of 60, of whom 11 are completely unvaccinated or partially vaccinated, said the Ministry.
Six cases are imported, of whom four were detected upon their arrival here while one developed symptoms during their stay-home notice or isolation period.
241 new COVID cases in Singapore, including 110 unlinked (msn.com)
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/singapor ... ar-AAO97q8
So out of 235 cases of infections, and only looking at the 70-and-above age category, only 6 of them were unvaccinated!
(In 2020, residents aged 65 years and above made up 15.2 percent of the total resident population in Singapore.
15.2 percent of 235 comes out to about 35.7 , so we can still see that very few of them were unvaccinated)
Do you notice anything here? Only 6 out of maybe 30 or 35 elderly hospitalization cases were unvaccinated, but 70% of elderly people in this country were vaccinated.
From these statistics, it's definitely not looking like vaccination offers a protective effect for the elderly against requiring hospitalization.
22 out of the 24 cases where people got very sick were over the age of 60.
This is equivalent to 91.6%.