Good point.

If those who have never received a single dose of the COVID vaccine make up about 20% of the U.S. population, but 40% of U.S. hospitalizations (I don’t know the exact figure, but this makes the calculation easy) — then they’re being hospitalized at twice the rate of the vaccinated. Even if the “vaccinated” (i.e. one or more doses) make up the remaining 60% of the hospitalizations.

Also, the meaning of “fully vaccinated” is evolving — as science often does.

A few months ago, “fully vaccinated” meant having 2 doses of Pfizer or Moderna under your belt (and then waiting a couple weeks for full immunity to kick in), but at this point, a booster shot is needed to be “fully vaccinated” due to the observation that immunity wanes. (And in 6 months or a year, it will likely again be different.)

If you looked at the data in even greater detail, you’d find that among the vaccinated, there’s a higher rate of hospitalization among those who last received a vaccine months ago or only ever received one shot.

It also matters whether you’ve *also* been previously infected with Alpha and/or Delta and/or Omicron, which confers “hybrid immunity,” and when your last infection was, and when in time those infections occurred in relation to your Covid vaccine doses (if any). Yep, immunity getting super messy and complicated.

Of course, Covidiots who have disparaged masking, social distancing, the vaccine, and other basic facts about COVID-19 for 2 years will never be able to grasp statistical subtleties like this in a million years.