Global Vaccinations

[HALL85]

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/international

US among a handful of countries with vaccination rates over 50%.

Although the MSM and social media would like us to believe our divisiveness, politics, etc, are unique or the driving force, we really are no different than other industrialized nations.

Also, can’t seem to make any correlation between vaccination rates and deaths/100k. Majority of African and Asian nations have extremely low numbers of both. Not saying vaccines are not effective, but more of a function of our general health as a country.

 

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Also, can’t seem to make any correlation between vaccination rates and deaths/100k. Majority of African and Asian nations have extremely low numbers of both. Not saying vaccines are not effective, but more of a function of our general health as a country.

Are you looking at deaths/100k since this started, or deaths/100k post having a vaccine available, or deaths/100k after a certain vaccination threshold was met?

With Africa specifically, I’d suspect that that they have a lower life expectancy by a fair margin so those who would be most at risk are probably already dead. Also I’d bet under reporting is playing a factor there and will take some time before we understand excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 around the world.

 

[HALL85]

Are you looking at deaths/100k since this started, or deaths/100k post having a vaccine available, or deaths/100k after a certain vaccination threshold was met?

With Africa specifically, I’d suspect that that they have a lower life expectancy by a fair margin so those who would be most at risk are probably already dead. Also I’d bet under reporting is playing a factor there and will take some time before we understand excess deaths in 2020 and 2021 around the world.

Deaths since beginning of COVID. I can’t find any data on deaths after countries received a vaccine. I just find it interesting that we had access to vaccines pretty much before everyone. Why in a country, where we have a high standard of living, access to healthcare, quality and capacity of healthcare system, early access to the vaccines, etc…. are our numbers so awful. I sense we are overlooking the poor general health of our population and our reliance on medications which may compromise our immune systems over time.

There are a lot of theories about African nations which have been discussed previously, that you’ve covered a few. Have to look at life expectancy for South American nations in general. That might be a good comparison to Africa on that point.

 

[shu09]

Over half of our country is "fully vaccinated" and among the best in the world, yet we have politicians, unelected public health dictators and the media having daily temper tantrums about the rate being too low, "anti-vaxers," and the ridiculous, un-American desire to mandate these things.

First world problems.

 

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Deaths since beginning of COVID. I can’t find any data on deaths after countries received a vaccine. I just find it interesting that we had access to vaccines pretty much before everyone. Why in a country, where we have a high standard of living, access to healthcare, quality and capacity of healthcare system, early access to the vaccines, etc…. are our numbers so awful. I sense we are overlooking the poor general health of our population and our reliance on medications which may compromise our immune systems over time.

Post vaccine availability, our numbers aren’t that bad comparatively. I’d probably look at deaths after a certain threshold of vaccine coverage to compare. what happened in each country after they hit 25% or something like that.

I’m sure poor health played a large part overall. We are clearly too unhealthy.

There are a lot of theories about African nations which have been discussed previously, that you’ve covered a few. Have to look at life expectancy for South American nations in general. That might be a good comparison to Africa on that point.

Yeah, it’s just going to take some time to have a better understanding. Initial global H1N1 death toll was under 20k, but after having time to analyze the data from each country they estimate that number was likely understates by 10x - 20x.