[USER=166]@dsedy[/USER] UK study interesting, couldn't get it to pop here...
True enough, the detailed analyses here only focused on Delta in depth, as that was the purpose of the update. If you dive in deeper with all the other variants some interesting data emerge. And we have to remember that these data are from patients seeking medical treatment.
You need to consider deaths from the other variants, which means you need to go through pages 16-21 to total things up. These data showing Alpha variant infections are 39% of the Delta infections, with these 2 variants making 99.75% of the infections. Interestingly enough, Total Alpha variant deaths (1619 deaths out of 150,620 positive cases or 1.07%) are greater than Delta, (1189 deaths out of 363,735) positive cases or 0.31% ). So during this time period, more folks in the UK contracted the Delta variant, but more died from the Alpha variant, at a rate 3.45X the deaths from the Delta variant.
Regrettably, they don't break out the deaths of the non-Delta deaths by variant so we can't exactly get a handle on this in terms of fully vaccinated vs unvaccinated.
Now, I'm modeling here, and I want everyone to understand that, but IF the vaccines are 90% effective on the Alpha variant, which is a bit of a low-ball from all the clinical data published to date, but I'll be conservative. Additionally I will carry that % over to the other variants based on the very low mortality and incidence we have in this data set. From the Delta info on page 22, 73,372 infected patients were fully vaccinated, which means the vaccine must have protected over 733,000 (the 90% who didn't get sick) folks from getting any non-Delta COVID infection in the first place.
All interesting data. Thanks for sharing!