Hard hit by omicron, New York City shows the ongoing benefit of vaccination

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Vaccines work

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Yet there is a sliver of good news that emerges from this darkness. The comprehensive data compiled by the New York City Health Department indicate that, even with the advent of the omicron variant, vaccines are effective at reducing the risk of infection, hospitalization and death.

The city data are offered both as relative values — that is, number of cases or deaths within a population — and as raw totals. It’s useful for us to begin by looking at those raw counts, because it demonstrates one of the common misunderstandings surrounding the pandemic response.,,,,,


At the bottom of that graph, you can see the ratio of per-capita cases, hospitalizations and deaths among the unvaccinated to the vaccinated. The higher the bars, the bigger the difference.

The omicron variant became a majority of cases in New York City in the middle of December. Since then, by my calculations, the unvaccinated have been about four times as likely to be infected, six times as likely to be hospitalized and seven times as likely to die of covid-19.

This is not a coincidence.

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1. As well as the other precautions,

such as masks and distancing.