re: UK report shows almost 2/3 of Delta deaths were vaccinated

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No no. This is every case from Feb1 to Aug 2! Every case

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No it is not. Table 5 which you love to cite says that were a total of 670 deaths from Delta in the 6 months from 02/01/2021 to 08/02/2021. However, if there were only 670 deaths over 6 months then delta would be a nonissue. You do not need to be an MD to understand that.

ETA: Please read page 3 of the report and then compare it to the title of Table 5.

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the proportion of cases sequenced and genotyped remains relatively low but
has started to recover as case numbers fall and capacity expands

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Table 5. Attendance to emergency care and deaths of confirmed and provisional Delta cases in England by vaccination status
(1 February 2021 to 2 August 2021)

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Table 5 only includes cases in which a specimen has been collected and successfully genotyped (aka confirmed as a covid delta case). As the summary says that remains a low percentage of cases. This data does not include all COVID cases in the UK or even England in the last 6 months. Because if it did delta covid would be a nonissue if there were only 300,000 cases, 5,000 hospitalizations, and 742 deaths in 6 months in England. This report is a technical briefing on a sample of the cases in England.