To give perspective on difficulties for policy-makers, this graph shows the ratio of full vax non-ICU hospitalizations per MM to unvax non-ICU hospitalizations. Very very rapid erosion of advantage.
Nothing in SciTable Dec 16 briefing even hints at such a possibility.
Nothing in SciTable Dec 16 briefing even hints at such a possibility.
SciTable and other perpetual government critics like to claim that if only govt had listened to them, none of this would have happened. Then Trudeau and others blame unvax for tribulations.
I'm pro-vax, but the problem that govt is facing right now isnt from the unvax, but from infections and hospitalizations among the fully vax as relative protection of fully vax has eroded.
even if vaccines live up to lesser promise of preventing severe disease, their more or less abject failure to prevent infection has apparently given rise to operating problems at hospitals due to staff shortages. This would not have been problem if vaccines worked as expected.
public sector unions, which haven't missed a paycheck during pandemic, are increasingly trying to capitalize on situation to extort more pay from an already and increasingly insolvent government. But local private businesses have already borne entire economic brunt of COVID.
here is corresponding graph for ICU occupancy. This does NOT show ratio for new admissions. As a quick guess from this figure, I'd estimate that ratio is now more like 0.5 for NEW admissions.
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