~163M Americans have been fully vaccinated versus an estimated 35M COVID cases. If one believes the real # of COVID cases is a multiple of those confirmed (e.g. 5x more) then the number of those who got COVID is pretty close to the # who got vaccinated. COVID deaths are still many times greater than those who died after being vaccinated, which is what I was attempting to demonstrate in my prior post.
And the obvious deficiency of the graph above is that not every one who died after getting vaccinated died because of the vaccine or related complications, so it is implicitly overstating vaccine deaths.
Here is another potential way (not necessarily the right way) of the many to look at the US numbers when deciding as an individual if you should get one of the U.S. Covid-19 vaccines. I will make a few assumptions as below, so that I am actually comparing the same time period and types of data, and also round off the numbers for demonstration purposes and ease of math.
Over the last 6 months if I have my numbers correct (check my work):
-About 150 million people have been vaccinated and 150 million haven't.
-There have been 25 million positive Covid tests.
-Let us assume that the vaccines offer 100% protection, of which they don't.
-I will also assume that the Vaccine related death rate is 5x's that reported to Vaers (some studies estimate that Vaers collects only about 1% of all actual vaccine related adverse events, but up to a max of 2 to 13% of actual serious events).
-Greater than 1/3 of Covid 19 deaths have been in those over 85 y/o.
-Less than 1/60th of the Covid 19 deaths have been in those under 40 y/o.
-Potential Covid related deaths over the past 6 months are about 200,000 (we know this is inflated and furthermore that many of the sickest people would have died from other things like UTI's, pneumonia, etc., but lets just go with this).
-So this means, 70,000 Covid 19 deaths in >85 y/o and 3,000 deaths in those <40 y/o.
-Potential Vaccine deaths would be about 50,000 (again, likely overstated just like with the estimated Covid 19 related deaths, but lets treat them the same; and anyone who is in health care also is aware that there are "long Covid-like syndromes" after Vaccination which are quite serious as well, from neuropathies to the sequelae of strokes, etc.)
Taking the above numbers (realizing that they are imperfect, but to show that maybe everyone who challenges MattB is not completely "living under a rock"), the risk of death would be as follows for the past 6 months:
- Death Rate for Covid 19 disease in <40 y/o = 3,000/150 million unvaccinated = 0.002%
-Death Rate for Vaccination in all ages = 50,000/150 million = 0.03%