[throwawaylinux]

The story talks about the study finding not only reduced risk of hospitalization but also increased risk of breakthrough infection (i.e., getting it a second time). It doesn't mention death or mortality at all as far as I can see.

What's the basis for your claim that it's about death rates?

[ithkuil]

You don't have to be looking for death rates to be affected by survivorship via.

If the pool of people you're studying is people who got it a second time, they cannot have died when they contracted it the first time by definition (i.e you simply cannot die and then continue living and participate in a subsequent study)

That said, you can account for this confounding factor and perhaps the study did account for that (didn't read it). I'm just pointing out that the question cannot be dismissed just by looking at whether death rates are part of the study or not

[throwawaylinux]

> You don't have to be looking for death rates to be affected by survivorship via.

I didn't say you did, but the post I was replying to said it the study here sounded like it. It didn't at all really considering the death rate is vastly lower than the infection rate and the infection rate differences were so huge.

> That said, you can account for this confounding factor and perhaps the study did account for that (didn't read it). I'm just pointing out that the question cannot be dismissed just by looking at whether death rates are part of the study or not

I didn't dismiss it, on the contrary I gave the poster a chance to substantiate their claim.