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VeryVer's avatar

Vermont keeps claiming it's the unvaxxed in the hospital/dying, but the over 70 age group is like 100% vacinated....so....? Visitors from Mississippi?

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el gato malo's avatar

it's a bogus reading of the EPIC medical records.

many patients have their vaccinate carried in non-structured comments fields so when you do a database search/table join they show as unvaxxed because the data was not entered in a searchable format.

it's a known issue and it seems to be being exploited for political purposes.

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NAB's avatar

Yes, one of the nurses from America's Frontline Nurses said the same thing. And she also mentioned that they will not give full credit for being "vaccinated" unless you have received the booster. So, whereas UK will delineate between one shot, two shots, boosted, etc... USA is binary - vaxxed (boosted) or un-vaxxed (any permutation of not-boosted).

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VeryVer's avatar

oh wow, thanks for explaining that. I keep telling people to look at the ages of the hospitalized/deaths as it is a very close proxy for vax status...but a lot of places really hide that age data. I wonder why.....

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Ivan's avatar

This is the problem I am seeing everywhere: massive obfuscation (on purpose), and incompetence (very poor tracking). The end result is that vaccinators can claim that "without vaccines it would have been much worse" and everybody else can find something in the data that supports their point of view.

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Charlotte's avatar

Yup, CT is reporting 52% of the hospitalized for covid are unvaccinated. It's not even possible because there are so few unvaccinated even left in this state. Shameful mishandling of data- on purpose. We ought to name and shame those folks too.

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JustANobody's avatar

Oh wow. I didn't realize this. Although it may be manipulating to look like ' See almost ' Everyone' is vaccinated.

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CMCM's avatar

Not even shameful mishandling....it's deliberate lying and obfuscation. I was just reading that even some VAERS data was purged from the site.

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Mike Rogers's avatar

Nope - must be from another planet - who else would settle in Vermont these days?

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VeryVer's avatar

lol. touche!

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