A question to any health pros or Covid nerds:
preface: an anecdotal picture is emerging to me (n=5) that suggest not much difference in symptoms between vaccinated and unvaccinated people who are getting covid. It appears (anecdotally and tiny sample size) to be pretty random. This observation, coupled with 1. my inability to find a breakdown of vaccination status of people in hospital, indeed my perception is that this is deliberately NOT being reported, which leads me to 2. I am experience meta-cognitive distress, that I am having anti-vac thoughts;
leads me to ask this question.
Question: does anyone have a recent breakdown of vaccination status of hospitalisations in Australia?
thanks.
This is a recent article from the SMH.
Victoria’s healthcare system faces a staffing crisis at a critical time when hundreds of staff are in isolation and COVID-19 hospitalisations are on the rise.
www.smh.com.au
Key points:
"The latest Victorian hospital data, obtained by
The Age, confirmed almost 94 per cent of those most gravely ill with coronavirus in ICU were unvaccinated. The other 6 per cent had largely been immunised, but most had underlying illness or compromised immune systems, making them susceptible to a more severe bout of the virus.
”There still remains very, very few patients who have ended up needing the most severe level of support if they have been fully vaccinated,” Professor Pilcher said.
On Friday, none of the almost 400 Victorians in hospital with coronavirus had received a booster and about 51 percent of overall hospital admissions were unvaccinated.
Another 4.8 per cent of people in hospital with COVID-19 had received one dose of the vaccine, while about 44.2 per cent had received two doses, the majority of whom were receiving medical care in general coronavirus wards."
Key indications as we know, is that vaccinations seem to prevent serious illness as shown here. 92% fully vaccinated over 12, but only 44.2% of hospital admissions are double dosed, and only 6% of those in ICU had received either 1 or 2 jabs.
If you look at it in numbers. I have tried to build the below table. Note that there wasn't a split of the 3 people in ICU that had received a vaccination (in terms of whether they were fully or partially) so I've put a vaccinated row at the bottom which is a sum of these 2 areas, the vast majority are fully rather than partially vaccinated. I don't think any anit vaxxer prevented with this info that could claim that vaccinations are not having a very positive effect.