Wow for 18-49 the only “deaths while hospitalized” were in the vaccinated group. No deaths in the unvaccinated in that age group. Over all age groups paints a different picture entirely, with more deaths for unvaccinated. Glad the broke out the results by age group.
Table 1 tells us that there were 6 total Omicron-period deaths while hospitalized in the fully vaccinated group. It is almost certainly a single death. It's conceivable that it's two deaths, but more than that appears mathematically impossible.
Unless I'm reading the report wrong, it's from a single hospital. We shouldn't be taking any lessons from such a limited dataset as there are far too many possible confounding factors that would be ameliorated in a larger dataset from more hospitals.
I wouldn’t read too much into one figure that may represent 1-2 total observations (there were a grand total of 6 deaths in the vaccinated group, not broken out by age, and 14 in the unvaccinated). It doesn’t even explicitly state if they died due to Covid.
Vaccination status has a ton of confounding variables, including age, immunocompromised status/other comorbidities, immunity from prior infection etc.
This was at one singular hospital with unknown population level immunity. The fact that there were zero deaths in what was likely a small subgroup is not something to base a broad likelihood estimate off of.
> Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Periods of B.1.617.2 (Delta) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance — One Hospital, California, July 15–September 23, 2021, and December 21, 2021–January 27, 2022
I tried to pick something from their summary which might fit here
> What are the implications for public health practice?
> COVID-19 vaccination, particularly a booster dose, continues to be critical in mitigating the health care burden of the Omicron variant.
It doesn't really capture what the paper encompasses, it highlights a specific part as if that was even a primary observation. The one I propose is dull as hell but its captures the extent of the study mostly trimming from the original and substituting synonyms for character constraint.
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[ 4.2 ms ] story [ 55.0 ms ] threadUnfortunately the study authors didn’t provide the underlying data that created the figure in a consumable format, so it’s hard to draw conclusions.
Honestly it was fairly irresponsible for the study authors not to contextualize that graphic better.
This was at one singular hospital with unknown population level immunity. The fact that there were zero deaths in what was likely a small subgroup is not something to base a broad likelihood estimate off of.
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Unvaccinated (n = 657)
Death while hospitalized
¶¶ Denominator excludes 129 patients who remained hospitalized as of January 27, 2022
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Approximately 20% cannot be assigned either way for this outcome yet.
> Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes Among Adults Hospitalized with Laboratory-Confirmed SARS-CoV-2 Infection During Periods of B.1.617.2 (Delta) and B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant Predominance — One Hospital, California, July 15–September 23, 2021, and December 21, 2021–January 27, 2022
I tried to pick something from their summary which might fit here
> What are the implications for public health practice?
> COVID-19 vaccination, particularly a booster dose, continues to be critical in mitigating the health care burden of the Omicron variant.
Does that fit?
> editorialize:
> 1 : to express an opinion in the form of an editorial. 2 : to introduce opinion into the reporting of facts.
I didn't add any personal opinion but picked up directly from the summary itself.