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13. Do not confuse that with the failure rate for the vaccine

Sat May 22, 2021, 10:54 AM

May 2021

People who are unaccustomed to thinking about probability and background rates can quickly get confused.

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1.07% of the people who have died from Covid in IL since Jan 1 were fully vaxxed [View all] mucifer May 2021 OP

Interesting Sanity Claws May 2021 #1

That's 64 people out of almost 5mil vaccinated AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #5

Not really AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #7

You are deliberately misstating the numbers AZSkiffyGeek May 2021 #9

I think the 1% number is more powerful. carpetbagger May 2021 #14

The odds are clearly in favor of those who got vaccinated bronxiteforever May 2021 #10

About 2% to 3% of people are immunocompromised... Buckeye_Democrat May 2021 #11

Not a meaningful statistic -- in January no one was fully vaccinated lostnfound May 2021 #12

Do not confuse that with the failure rate for the vaccine eallen May 2021 #13