“AND HOW ARE THE VACCINES WORKING OUT?”

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After last Friday’s COVID-19 update was posted on our webpage, a reader named “Randal” commented: “And how are the “vaccines” working out now? Funny you never mention anything about breakout cases, only bring up the unvaccinated. I wonder why. Does not meet the narrative to push the worthless vaccine.”
A followup look into what Randal was seeing confirmed no mention of “breakthrough” cases – those occurring to persons who’d already been vaccinated – and we also didn’t find any mention of “unvaccinated”. But the story did contain the usual reporting of vaccination numbers and percentages in Sheboygan County.
When reporting COVID-19 cases and deaths, neither the Sheboygan County Division of Public Health nor the Wisconsin Department of Health Services show vaccination status of those cases on a daily basis. Wisconsin does publish a monthly comparison showing age-adjusted COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths among fully vaccinated and not fully vaccinated people, updated around the middle of the month. As of September, that shows that for every 100,000 persons in Wisconsin, 360.7 cases were found among the fully vaccinated, while 1,413.7 cases were among those not fully vaccinated. Hospitalizations numbered 11.5 per 100,000 persons among the fully vaccinated, versus 98.5 for not fully vaccinated. Deaths ranked 1.1 and 11.7 per 100,000 respectively. (To be clear, “age-adjusted” allows for the fact that those 12+ years old represent a larger proportion of the fully vaccinated population, while younger populations represent a larger proportion of the unvaccinated.   The State DHS does the age adjustment in order to more fairly compare rates between the two groups based upon the same population proportions.)                                                                                                                       The latest statistics from The Centers for Disease Control, which compiles national data from the 50 states and all territories, indicated a death rate of about 1.65% overall from COVID-19. The CDC reported that of the over 183,000,000 fully vaccinated individuals in the U.S., 22,115 still required hospitalizations or died of COVID-19 as of September 27th. The 5,226 deaths were under 3-one-thousandths of one percent among the fully vaccinated. Some 16,889 individuals were hospitalized but recovered.
The CDC also said that only 7 states are publicly reporting information on vaccine breakthrough cases, those being California, Louisiana, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Washington, DC.
So how are those vaccinations working out? The data would indicate “pretty well.”