Interesting that Germany, Denmark, and England report between 75-86% of omicron cases are among the vaccinated.
In Manila, people are getting sick left and right. Vaccinated, too, and the compliance with getting vaccinated has been strong.
But because most of those cases are not at a level that requires hospitalization, a large majority are staying home and taking conventional flu medicines. They are not getting tested (why bother, and it's expensive) and are not showing up on official case counts.
Now, let's suppose that you have a country where opposition to vaccines and even belief in COVID at all are a statement of political identify. Not even your Supreme Leader is immune from criticism for failing to toe the line. Now, you have a situation where people would also stay at home and self-medicate (with Viagra!) and not get tested, and not end up on the official case lists, because opposing the system in every form is an imperative.
How do you think that might affect the statistics?
A less strained statistic would be found here:
"The ICU occupancy rate per million is 135.6 for unvaccinated people and just 9.2 for those who have gotten two doses of COVID-19 vaccines. So vaccination reduces the ICU risk by 93.2 percent."
https://reason.com/2022/01/06/omicron-vs-the-unvaccinated-and-the-vaccinated/So, these are people who have gone to the hospital for treatment, and ended up in the ICU. That normalizes the statistics, because you can rest assured that you are looking at the whole population and not a sample.
It also raises a question about how it would be that ~80% of the all cases are among the vaccinated, but 90%+ of the severe cases are vaccinated. Probably fake news.
