Considering that the cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario went higher than the January peak but the deaths are down like 55% from January, yeah I'd say the vaccine is working. The 80+ year olds who made up 69% of the COVID-19 deaths prior to the vaccine roll out got their jabs awhile back. Especially the nursing home residents who got first dibs. And the share of 80+ year olds among COVID-19 deaths has been going down for awhile. There are a lot of obese Type II diabetic boomers in their 50s-70s in the hospital with COVID who didn't get the jab until recently (you need 16 days to develop the antibodies from the vaccine). But this group has a greater survivability rate than the 80+ year old geriatrics in nursing homes. This is why you're seeing less death despite the hospitalizations and cases.
If you copy and paste all the fatality cases in the Ontario .csv data and sort by episode date and create a pivot table and calculate a 7-day rolling average of the daily fatalities you'll see that deaths have been trending up since the Feb 28th episode date (the "third wave"). And the death share for under-80s went up while it went down for the 80+ demo (that has been vaccinated awhile ago).
If you are young and healthy, it doesn't make sense to have the vaccine. But if you are a geriatric or a fat ass (especially old and fat), it makes more sense to get the vaccine.
Considering that the cases, hospitalizations and ICU admissions in Ontario went higher than the January peak but the deaths are down like 55% from January, yeah I'd say the vaccine is working. The 80+ year olds who made up 69% of the COVID-19 deaths prior to the vaccine roll out got their jabs awhile back. Especially the nursing home residents who got first dibs. And the share of 80+ year olds among COVID-19 deaths has been going down for awhile. There are a lot of obese Type II diabetic boomers in their 50s-70s in the hospital with COVID who didn't get the jab until recently (you need 16 days to develop the antibodies from the vaccine). But this group has a greater survivability rate than the 80+ year old geriatrics in nursing homes. This is why you're seeing less death despite the hospitalizations and cases.
If you copy and paste all the fatality cases in the Ontario .csv data and sort by episode date and create a pivot table and calculate a 7-day rolling average of the daily fatalities you'll see that deaths have been trending up since the Feb 28th episode date (the "third wave"). And the death share for under-80s went up while it went down for the 80+ demo (that has been vaccinated awhile ago).
If you are young and healthy, it doesn't make sense to have the vaccine. But if you are a geriatric or a fat ass (especially old and fat), it makes more sense to get the vaccine.