The number of people hospitalized due to the coronavirus increased by 43% in one week and for the first time the vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated among the Covid patients, admitted to the hospital. How is this explained?
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According to statistics from the Dress, the Directorate of Statistical Studies which depends on the Ministry of Health, on October 31, 105 entries of vaccinated patients against 93 unvaccinated were registered. The vaccinated were indeed more numerous, to have been hospitalized that day. The Institut Pasteur had anticipated this kind of scenario, and it should be understood that in no case does this demonstrate the lack of efficacy of vaccines. Why ? Because in statistics it is not possible to compare figures that come from groups of different sizes. The group of vaccinated in the general population is today much larger than that of the unvaccinated. If the vaccinated are more numerous in the hospital: it is just a question of arithmetic. The more the proportion of the vaccinated in the population increases, the more they will be in hospital because the vaccine does not protect 100% against the serious forms, it only protects a little more than 90%.
This means that even if one day we had 100% of vaccinated in France (today we are 90% vaccinated with at least one dose in the 12 years old and over), we would also have 100% of vaccinated among the hospitalized patients. , those in whom the injection did not work. This does not change the fact that once we have received the vaccine, we still remain better protected against the virus. to be hospitalized
For people 20 years and older, the vaccine divides by nine the risk of being hospitalized or dying from Covid compared to unvaccinated. These are the latest figures from the Ministry of Health. In addition, the vaccine also limits contamination: there are four times fewer positive tests for Covid in fully vaccinated people.