[halfjoking]

Yes that explanation is plausible. I replied to another comment below what I take away from that statistic… mainly that vaccine mandates are BS given other factors such as age has such an impact on mortality and spread.

[jollybean]

Vaccines reduce the spread significantly, ergo, the mandates for even young people have a dramatic effect in reducing risk for everyone.

They are not BS.

[checkyourbias]

Do you have a source showing vaccines significantly reduce the spread of the current dominant variant?