Vaccine effective in Minnesota, but omicron presents a challenge

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1. So unvaxxed have 2.96 X the death risk as the vaxxed. And MN situation (nytimes)

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%deaths/%pop:
Unvaxxed: 47/23 = 2.04,
Vaxxed: 53/77 = 0.69.
So Unvaxxed have 2.04/0.69 X= 2.96 X the death risk as the vaxxed.
I'm very surprised, because I've seen much higher relative death risk numbers, like about 20X in what I've read before.
3X the risk is plenty of incentive for me.


Minnesota situation --
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/minnesota-covid-cases.html
No paywall, No quota. The "Last 90 days" button is very helpful. There's one above every graph or set of graphs, on the left side

Lots of graphs and all that, but for the click-challenged here's one of the stats:

14 day change:
Cases: -69%
Hospitalized: -25% (both non-ICU and ICU happen to both be -25%)
Deaths: -20%