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Originally Posted by drducat

I think yesterday it was 48% and now : COVID-19: 60% of people being admitted to hospital with coronavirus have been double-jabbed, says Vallance

This is in the UK...should hold true here..if not then something is terribly wrong.

COVID-19: 60% of people being admitted to hospital with coronavirus have been double-jabbed, says Vallance | UK News | Sky News

you might want to go back to your source. Sky news has issued a corrected report.

Sir Patrick Vallance told a news briefing that figure was for double-jabbed people. But he later corrected himself on Twitter, saying the original statistic was false.
He posted: "Correcting a statistic I gave at the press conference today, 19 July.

"About 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are not from double-vaccinated people, rather 60% of hospitalisations from COVID are currently from unvaccinated people."

And if you are paying any attention to how the Brits categorize vaccination status, a person who has had one of two of the doses is not considered unvaccinated in their data. Additionally in the UK the second dose is not being given 4 weeks after the initial dose, rather 8 to 12 weeks later so there are a larger number of persons who have had one of the two doses.

Here is the data as reported as of July 19

Wales has vaccinated 90% of those aged 18 and over with at least one dose, while Scotland has reached 89%, England 87% and Northern Ireland 82%.

Using the British criteria, this only leaves 13% of those in England as unvaccinated, and they are fantastically over - represented as resulting in 60% of those hospitalized. We are not supplied with the data on how many of the remaining 40% have only had a single dose but about 25% of adults in the UK have only had a single dose which is far less effective against the delta strain.

Again, the data available shows that the vaccines don't just work, they work amazingly well but not 100%. As variants emerge there will need to be adjustments in vaccination recommendations and perhaps in the design of the vaccine itself, much like the influenza vaccine varies from year to year.

The take home message is that we are now in a new wave of Covid caused by the delta variant which did not exist when the vaccines were developed. It is a tribute to the excellent scientists that those vaccines work very well against this new strain. As more variants emerge, mostly in unvaccinated persons, there is a real risk that a mutation in the spike protein will make the present vaccines less protective.

Why did several Yankees test positive when they apparently were vaccinated? Likely because cause a new variant has sub-clinically infected them and they are routinely tested, several times a week unlike the general population.

Here are two images that might help people understand what is happening which show the rate of new Covid infections in Florida over the last month showing cases per 100,000 population per county: