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

[bluewater]

109. Thank you, the news need to both correct and not easily misinterpreted

Last edited Mon Aug 2, 2021, 06:01 PM - Edit history (1)

My OP post was about two respected mainstream news sources that I felt were presenting misleading statistics based on outdated data.

I feel they have an obligation to present information in a straightforward and clear manner that cannot be easily misinterpreted by the general public. But when they say only 0.1% of vaccinated Americans have been infected and only 0.004% of vaccinated Americans have been hospitalized, I think that has given way to many people the wrong impression of the risks and how they should respond to the pandemic.

According to recent studies, Dr fauci says 80% of vaccinated people EXPOSED to covid would be infected. He says of the 20% infected, 4% would need to be hospitalized, or 0.8% from the total of vaccinated people exposed to covid.

That paints an entirely different picture to the person wondering what the risk is when they go shopping near unmasked and potentially unvaccinated people. Which, I think, is the point you just made.

The difference is that Dr Fauci's numbers are for people EXPOSED to covid, and the numbers from AXIOS in the OP were for people incontact with the general population that may or may not have had covid MONTHS ago. Big difference in my mind. What's the actual risk for a given individual in a given town? Who knows... but I am erring on the side of safety personally.

Thanks for the feedback, I hope this thread has done some good.