The ineligible rate doesn't matter
It does matter, but it's still a dismal result for the vaccine.
There's about 4.5 million vaccinated scots out of about 5.5 million. The ~800k children don't die from covid so take them out: 4.5/(5.5-0.8) is now 95% excluding children. Denominator is the population susceptible to dying.
The actual result of 87% is below 95% expected if vaccine did nothing. 0.13/0.05 is 2.6x effective at preventing death.
So this is not nothing, but it's a far cry from the 'unvaccinated are 40x more likely to die' bullshit the media spouts and is way too small to justify taking an experimental treatment with no long term studies unless you are very old. It's worse than eating a handful of fucking cranberries.
The saddest part of this is they actually got >90% of scots to take an untested experimental procedure. This is totally pathetic and they should all be forced to watch Braveheart until they understand that dying in their beds many years from now they'll regret not taking that chance to tell their enemies they may take their lives, but they will never take their freedom.
The ineligible rate doesn't matter
It does matter, but it's still a dismal result for the vaccine.
There's about 4.5 million vaccinated scots out of about 5.5 million. The ~800k children don't die from covid so take them out: 4.5/(5.5-0.8) is now 95% excluding children. Denominator is the population susceptible to dying.
The actual result of 87% is below 95% expected if vaccine did nothing. 0.13/0.05 is 2.6x effective at preventing death.
So this is not nothing, but it's a far cry from the 'unvaccinated are 40x more likely to die' bullshit the media spouts and is way too small to justify taking an experimental treatment with no long term studies unless you are very old. It's worse than eating a handful of fucking cranberries.
The saddest part of this is they actually got >90% of scots to take an untested experimental procedure. This is totally pathetic and they should all be forced to watch Braveheart until they understand that dying in your beds many years from now they'll regret not taking that chance to tell their enemies they may take their lives, but they will never take their freedom.