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[Ms. Toad]

124. You know that is nonsense.

Just because in a time of low infection rate, low transmission rate (non-Delta), higher effectiveness for the vaccine (non-Delta), when mitigation measures were in effect only .0001 individuals were breakthrough cases does not mean that vaccinated individuals have that kind of protection against COVID under the current circumstances (high transmssion, high infection rate, lower effectiveness).

If you want to use that number - please also provide how many non-vaccinated individuals were protected from getting sick enough to be hospitalized using the same calculations over the same time period. I.e. # non-vaccinated people hospitalized during that same period/total # of non-vaccinated individuals. Comparing the rate of infection against the rate of infection in the non-vaccinated population. Non-vaccination, measured by the same standards, would likely generate about 99.98% "protection against hospitalization."

The number you are citing is NOT protection against hospitalization. That number can only be obtained by comparing the vaccinated group against the unvaccinated group. Not by taking a snapshot in time of how many at that particular point in time, under those particular circumstances, have already (by the end of the measuring interval) come down with COVID.