Not an expert, but I remember the first wave being very lethal due to hitting many older people.
I’m very convinced by this fact.
But I just wonder more and more whether we really got so much people vaccinated when I read how much ill people we get. It was too good to be true.
* method of counting deaths
* high population density
* older population
* utter incompetence in the beginning that led to many deaths in retirement homes (about half our deaths are from retirement homes).
Because it’s a stupid graph. The right column are deaths in the last 14 days and we’re in the middle of a surge in cases, hence so many deaths, Take the numbers from October and it would be a big difference.
If you want to see how good vaccines work you need to have a lot more data. But you can compare last years surge in cases around the same time to this years and you will notice there are far less hospitalisations with a comparable amount of infections. You can see that easily on the VRT graphs. It’s not a reliable statistical analysis, but the positive effect of the vaccine is high enough to show up.
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Bad luck?
A lot of old people.
It’s probably even worse than that, as the countries at the bottom are undercounting more.
I suspect the method of counting COVID deaths plays a big role here.
Belgium counts differently. Sciensano counts confirmed and suspected cases. Source: https://www.nu.nl/coronavirus/6053011/waarom-het-aantal-coronadoden-in-belgie-zo-groot-is.html
Not an expert, but I remember the first wave being very lethal due to hitting many older people.
I’m very convinced by this fact.
But I just wonder more and more whether we really got so much people vaccinated when I read how much ill people we get. It was too good to be true.
* method of counting deaths
* high population density
* older population
* utter incompetence in the beginning that led to many deaths in retirement homes (about half our deaths are from retirement homes).
Because it’s a stupid graph. The right column are deaths in the last 14 days and we’re in the middle of a surge in cases, hence so many deaths, Take the numbers from October and it would be a big difference.
If you want to see how good vaccines work you need to have a lot more data. But you can compare last years surge in cases around the same time to this years and you will notice there are far less hospitalisations with a comparable amount of infections. You can see that easily on the VRT graphs. It’s not a reliable statistical analysis, but the positive effect of the vaccine is high enough to show up.