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kpete

(72,006 posts)
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 10:33 AM Jan 2022

MD Gov: 8% unvaccinated - responsible for 75% of all the people that are filling COVID beds

from a couple of days ago, seems important -
"We have 92% of our state vaccinated ... but we have overflowing hospitals," says @GovLarryHogan on CNN. "So that 8% of the population who has not been vaccinated is responsible for 75% of all the people that are filling up our COVID beds in the hospital." https://cnn.it/3zgLNVL


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MD Gov: 8% unvaccinated - responsible for 75% of all the people that are filling COVID beds (Original Post) kpete Jan 2022 OP
Yep . . Lovie777 Jan 2022 #1
Yes, and a few thousand of them carried out the Jan 6 Insurrection for TFG, while bucolic_frolic Jan 2022 #2
It's remarkable Johnny2X2X Jan 2022 #3
With whatever dignity, these unvaccinated people have.... Omnipresent Jan 2022 #4
Lets Go Darwin !!! uponit7771 Jan 2022 #5

bucolic_frolic

(43,249 posts)
2. Yes, and a few thousand of them carried out the Jan 6 Insurrection for TFG, while
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 10:42 AM
Jan 2022

most Americans, no matter how they feel about issues, would not participate in a crime spree for a politician.

They punch above their weight, you gotta give them that.

Johnny2X2X

(19,095 posts)
3. It's remarkable
Tue Jan 4, 2022, 10:50 AM
Jan 2022

But the general public is bad at math. 8% responsible for 75% doesn't hit home for the public, but what that means is that unvaccinated people are 35 times more likely to end up in the hospital for Covid than vaccinated people. It's like playing Russian roulette with a 100 chambered gun, would you rather have 1 bullet in those 100 chambers or 35 bullets?

And the small number of vaccinated people who end up in the hospital are likely people with other serious health problems. And once both groups are in the hospital, the unvaccinated end up in the ICU or dead much more frequently, the vaccinated people end up going home most of the time.

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