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Originally Posted by 10023
The bold part should be obvious and inevitable as vaccination rates rise. If we could ever achieve 100% vaccination (we will not, but for illustration), then obviously 100% of hospitalized Covid patients would be vaccinated. That doesn’t mean vaccines don’t work, though obviously they don’t work perfectly. Nothing ever will work perfectly, people will always get Covid, and some people will always die of Covid. It’s time to accept that.
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Also the hospitalization numbers are typically just whoever was in the hospital and happened to test positive for covid. Not necessarily the number of beds occupied by people who were there because of covid.
Sometimes this distinction probably didn't/doesn't matter but it might be more important now that so many people are vaccinated and are getting back to normal, getting exposed more but experiencing milder illness.