Lying by Omission about Break-Thru Covid-19 Infections?

[bluewater]

102. "If a state had a 100% vaccination rate, what percent of new cases would be breakthrough?"

I can answer that, 100%, of course! lol But I take your point.

But being serious, the issue is are vaccinated people more protected from the Delta variant than the unvaccinated, and to what degree.


I couldn't find vaccine totals for a given date for Virginia, but I could for Utah.

https://coronavirus-dashboard.utah.gov/vaccines.html

Vacines administer:

as of June 1 = 2,657,162
as of August 1 = 3035117

That's an increase of 12.5%

and from that excerpt I posted:

“For other states that publish data like Utah, it's clear breakthroIugh cases have accelerated in the past two months. In Utah on June 2, 2021, just 27 or 8 percent of the 312 new cases in the state were breakthrough cases. As of July 26 there were 519 new cases and almost 20 percent or 94 were breakthroughs, according to state data."

Hmmm. on June 2, 2021, just 27 or 8 percent of the 312 new cases in the state were break thru. In July there were 519 new case, 94 breakthru cases for a breakthru percentage of 20%.

Huh, look at that. Your point exactly. Vaccination totals rose by 12% and the beakthru cases increased by 12%, more or less, during the Delta variant surge.

Wow, that's good news. right? or is it... No it's not. Because the excerpt I posted didn't just list percentages, it showed total new cases, which increased.

You would hope that if vaccinations increased that the total number of new cases would go down, right? But it did not.

But, heh, someone might say that is due to the Delta variant hitting the unvaccinated harder, increasing the total cases.

OK, but that's not what the Utah data showed. It showed an increase in total covid 19 cases in both the vaccinated and unvaccinated populations at virtually the same rate.

So, let me ask a better question than I did last time, would it be willfully concentrating on the negative to the point of being obsessive to notice that vaccinated and unvaccinated infections are increasing in Utah at the same rate?

In all seriousness, I would have expected to see that the % of breakthru cases DECLINED due to the vaccinated being better protected from the Delta variant than the unvaccinated, but that didn't happen.

Isn't that a reasonable basis for increased concern?

Asking for a friend...

All kidding aside, thank you for a thought provoking discussion.