0.89% - hospitalization rate if you get covid with no vaccine
0.01% - hospitalization rate if you get covid with the vaccine
50% - what democrat fanatics believe is your odds of needing hospitalization if you get covid
Maher went on to slam Democrats over a poll that showed "41%" of them believed unvaccinated people have "over 50%" risk of hospitalization when it's actually "0.89%," adding that it's "0.01%" for vaccinated people.
And some of these hospitalizations are for people who are unfortunately already dying of something else already:
But Maher pushed back on the lack of "consensus" on how many people have actually died from COVID, pointing to the recent passing of former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who Maher pointed out had cancer and Parkinson's disease but died of "complications from COVID."
If ~0.89% of covid hospitalizations went to the hospital last year ...
How many people does that imply were infected by covid last year?
My guess is over 1 billion.
I did the napkin math and if we assume that 1% of unvaccinated people were hospitalized, and 1/10 hospitalizations were deaths (big overstatement), and use the "deaths with Covid" figure of ~350,000, then this implies the entire population of the US (plus all the illegals and travelers) was infected last year.