Thread by @ClimateAudit

Trudeau, like Biden, purports to blame unvaccinated for COVID case explosion, but vast majority of cases are among fully vax and current rate of infection per 100K among fully vax higher than among unvax. Problem is not as simplistic as Trudeau says.

https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/1478794874451378181

I say this as someone that got vaccinated and boosted at earliest opportunity and am glad that I did. Nor do I fault anyone for rapid spread of Omicron even among fully vax. It's frustrating and discouraging. But Trudeau's hatemongering is no help.

nor is Trudeau correct to blame increase in hospitalizations on unvax. The sudden increase in Ontario hospitalizations is almost entirely due to non-ICU hospitalizations among fully_vax. Something that we all expected (and were assured) would be forestalled by vaccines.

The rise in hospitalizations among fully_vax is discouraging. But it is simplistic and dishonest for Trudeau to blame this rise on unvax, as opposed to unexpectedly disappointing results from vaccines which may have been over-promised.

Toronto provides detailed data by agegroup (but not vax), but are sometimes 7-10 days delayed. New ICU admissions (not occupancy) and deaths remain inconsequential, but non-ICU hospitalization among young people has gone up a lot.

despite VERY disappointing performance of vaccines in preventing cases and now in preventing non-ICU hospitalization, they seem to be holding up in respect to ICU and deaths. If doomcaster projections of overflowing ICUs prove out, vaccine benefit will be much less than promised

I don't blame anyone for this. It was new territory, but if that's what happens, then maybe we should have put more effort into a diversified response including treatment of disease, as opposed to near total reliance on novel vaccine.

and maybe we should be looking carefully at vaccines being used in India, just in case they might be doing better job than the mRNA vaccines that we've totally placed our bet on