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by woodruffw 1684 days ago
That information seems to be listed in this report[1]. The TL;DR, if I understand it correctly, is that a single vaccinated person appears to be dying every other day on average, versus approximately 5 vaccinated people every single day. So that's a tenfold difference.

[1]: https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-loc...

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This is the relevant quote. Population wide fatality rate for non vaccinated individuals is about 9x higher.

> Over the past 7 days, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who are critically ill in the ICU are at 0.5 and 5.4 per 100,000 population respectively. Over the same period, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who died are 0.1 and 0.9 per 100,000 population respectively. Among seniors aged 60 and above, the number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated cases who are critically ill in the ICU are 1.9 and 48.0 respectively. The number of fully vaccinated and non-fully vaccinated seniors who died are 0.4 and 9.2 respectively.

> Population wide fatality rate for non vaccinated individuals is about 9x higher.

Given that there are 8 vaccinated people for every unvaccinated one, isn’t that about 72×?

No, the numbers are already normalized by the population counts.
Aha. Read it as “(0.5 and 5.4) per 100,000 population”, not as “0.5 per 100,000 (vaccinated) population and 5.4 per 100,000 (unvaccinated) population”

Thanks.