Thread by @MonicaGandhi9

Important to look at dropping hospitalizations in U.S. among older groups getting vaccinated when judging power of the vaccines (as opposed to younger groups not yet vaccinated). So, when you look at crude cases not yet dropping in many places, look at age-based hospitalizations

From CDC source, Look at drop in last 7-day hospital admissions from 2/24/21 to today- rate drop more dramatic in older ages
>65 yrs: Down -44% (17,019 to 9491)
50-63 yr: Down -23% (15,987 to 12207)
18-49 yrs: Down -16% from 2/24/21 (9058 to 7065)
covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…

Greater drop in hospitalizations among older due to >65 being vaccinated first (although 2 doses in majority of >65 not yet reached). In terms of New Jersey, one of the slowest states to vaccinate long-term care facilities which explains lower drop there

Overall, hospitalizations per case dropping (and deaths per case). That is actually a big deal though cases not dropping as fast as we'd like (but we haven't reached threshold of vaccination where cases started dropping in Israel - hospitalization per case went down first).

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