Why Most Covid-19 Cases Are Now Coming From the Vaccinated in Some Regions
It’s no longer the pandemic of the unvaccinated. How and why has it come to this point?
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8 min readOct 4, 2021
The majority of Covid-19 cases are now coming from vaccinated people in several parts of the world with high vaccination rates. Calling it a pandemic of the unvaccinated as we used to is no longer appropriate. Even though the Covid-19 vaccines still work, it is now a pandemic of both the vaccinated and unvaccinated. How and why has it come to this point?
The discrepancy between % of cases and vaccine effectiveness
- In Israel, 59% of patients hospitalized for severe or critical Covid-19 were fully vaccinated with Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine as of 15 August 2021.
- In Ireland, 54% of hospitalized Covid-19 patients were fully vaccinated by the end of August 2021 (vaccine type unspecified).
- In the U.K. Public Health England (PHE) Technical Briefing 22 report, 50.3%, 47%, and 70% of Delta variant infections, hospitalizations, and deaths occurred in the vaccinated group as of 20 August 2021. In the Technical Briefing 23 report, such percentages were 52%, 50%, and 71%, respectively, as of 12 September 2021. Vaccines used were Pfizer’s mRNA, Moderna’s…
