17 June 2021
This is usually the key messages of those people who do not like vaccine. They claimed medics said vaccine is ineffective and people get killed by vaccines. They also claimed that the Governments were trying to cover up the truth about the death caused by vaccination. This article does not intend to argue who is right or wrong or whether there is death report covering up. It intends to find out if the vaccine is doing us any good to justify the use of the vaccine even if the rumour-mongerings were true.
What's Evidences We Have?
The real World Data charts from Our-World-in-Data. Three Charts in particular:
1. The 1st dose vaccine take-up rate in % of population2. The infection rate in per million population3. The death rate in per million population;
The rates are used instead of absolute number for ease of comparison. These 3 charts are arranged next to each other as shown (Note: These 3 charts are interactive charts. One can change and add countries to get the desired results. Click remove side bar for larger view plus many other charts)
What's Evidences We Have?
The real World Data charts from Our-World-in-Data. Three Charts in particular:
1. The 1st dose vaccine take-up rate in % of population
2. The infection rate in per million population
3. The death rate in per million population;
The rates are used instead of absolute number for ease of comparison.
These 3 charts are arranged next to each other as shown (Note: These 3 charts are interactive charts. One can change and add countries to get the desired results. Click remove side bar for larger view plus many other charts)
What the 3 Charts are Telling Us?
It simply tells us about what happened before and after the vaccine were use from Dec 2020. These countries were used because they are attacked most by the Delta or the Indian variants. Delta are known to be more vicious and infectious than other variants. According to GISAID, these countries accounted for more than 90% of the Delta attacks as recorded on 17 June 2021 https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/One could readily deduce from the 3 charts that vaccine has managed to tame Covid-19. We will let time tell us how effective is the Covid-19 vaccine and if it will completely eradicate the virus.
What the 3 Charts are Telling Us?
It simply tells us about what happened before and after the vaccine were use from Dec 2020. These countries were used because they are attacked most by the Delta or the Indian variants. Delta are known to be more vicious and infectious than other variants. According to GISAID, these countries accounted for more than 90% of the Delta attacks as recorded on 17 June 2021
https://www.gisaid.org/hcov19-variants/
One could readily deduce from the 3 charts that vaccine has managed to tame Covid-19. We will let time tell us how effective is the Covid-19 vaccine and if it will completely eradicate the virus.
How Many People Avoided Death & Suffering?
How Many People Avoided Death & Suffering?
For a better comparison, let use the period from December 20, 2020. This is when we started the vaccination exercise in the United States. Then we see the death and infection rate peaking around January 11, 2021. We can download the data from Our World in Data to form the following table. From the table, we can see that the death avoidance is estimated to be 27,000. As for the infection, it is 1.5 million people avoided.
It can be readily deduced that vaccine is very helpful in Covid-19 infection and death avoidance. Of course, some of these people might have been saved by the tightened control measures but it is believed that vaccine did most of the work.
For a better comparison, let use the period from December 20, 2020. This is when we started the vaccination exercise in the United States. Then we see the death and infection rate peaking around January 11, 2021. We can download the data from Our World in Data to form the following table. From the table, we can see that the death avoidance is estimated to be 27,000. As for the infection, it is 1.5 million people avoided.
It can be readily deduced that vaccine is very helpful in Covid-19 infection and death avoidance. Of course, some of these people might have been saved by the tightened control measures but it is believed that vaccine did most of the work.
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