People are going to accuse me of being an anti-vaxxer for even raising the question, but it's incredibly frustrating how difficult it is to get raw data on numbers of COVID deaths broken down by vaccination status. Almost all data is published as a share-of-population rate.
One might think you could use the share-of-population rate to calculate the raw death totals, but you can't - it's been heavily adjusted and everyone has different population-level vaccination figures anyway.
I'm pretty sure the reason for the strange absence of this rather important data is because people think if Americans see the raw number of vaccinated people that have died, it'll give ammunition to anti-vaxxers. I'm sympathetic to these concerns.
However, NOT publishing the data has costs too. It contributes to the widespread notion, including among policymakers, that vaccines have cleanly bifurcated society into an at-risk population and a safe population. That myth has seriously degraded our response to the pandemic.
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