[mshron]

Look all the way over at "Second dose", the age-standardized mortality rate is 1.1 per 100,000 vs 5.4 per 100,000 for the unvaccinated. 5x protection against death.

[mwint]

To put these numbers in perspective, global death rate from car accidents is 18.2/100k/yr. 12.4 in the US.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic...

[mshron]

Yeah, and this is per week data, not per year too. So one year of being unvaccinated is equivalent to 17 years of car crash risk.

[mshron]

Table 1, in the linked XLS file for data through 24 September. You can see that it was originally closer to 0.1 (50x protection against death) but it's gone up to 1.1 over the last few months, I'm guessing as immunity has started to wear off.

[jabbernotty]

Something else to consider is that while a person may die while having COVID-19, it does not mean that is all that they died from. People in general may have several health problems, which is especially likely for an 80+ year old person. Some healthcare activities have also been postponed since the outbreak, by the patients and also the hospitals, which may have led to less healthy people.