[benpiper]

This report provides only age-adjusted numbers for vaccine effectiveness, but doesn't provide the model used to arrive at those numbers. If you look at the raw numbers, a different picture emerges:

Chances of not being hospitalized with Covid:

Unvaccinated: 99.9%

Vaccinated: 99.99%

Instead of providing a useful picture, the report compares two tiny numbers from each group and makes it a point to amplify the differences.

[disgruntledphd2]

That's a pretty big risk reduction in either case.

[peteradio]

*relative risk reduction

We don't always care about relative risk reduction when the absolute risk is considered negligible. That is how we narrow focus and decide on what to spend our limited resources.

[disgruntledphd2]

Sure, but given that vaccines are readily available and reduce risk, seems like a relative no-brainer to deploy them.

And also, the absolute risk is very dependent on age.