Hacker News Reader

> highly vaccinated area COVID-19 cases are sharply rising

omnicron's effect on healthcare would be a lot worse without majority of people being vaccinated. everyone is anti-vaxx but it's always shocking how many of them clowns are not anti-respirator or anti-ICU.

View on HN

where is your proof of this statement. this is an assumption, not a fact.

This study[1] shows 70% effectiveness against hospitalization for the Pfizer vaccine (based on a two-dose regime; the level of protection would likely be significantly higher for boosted populations).

I'll leave it to you to do the math on what this would mean for the healthcare system if we take current daily infections and remove that effect.

[1]: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc2119270

Reply on news.ycombinator.com