{"id":31018,"date":"2021-02-06T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=31018"},"modified":"2021-02-12T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T17:36:44","slug":"if-the-vaccine-works-why-isnt-the-plague-over-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/06\/if-the-vaccine-works-why-isnt-the-plague-over-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"If the vaccine works, why isn&#8217;t the plague over in Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[February 11 update: Only five days later, some more data&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/hmo-sees-only-544-covid-infections-among-523000-fully-vaccinated-israelis\/\">&#8220;It works: 0 deaths, only 4 severe cases among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis&#8221;<\/a> (<em>Times of Israel<\/em>, but no information in the article regarding how old and\/or sick this population of 523,000 folks was (maybe the kinds of folks who are typically killed by COVID-19 are not part of this HMO)).]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Israel is mostly vaccinated at this point, yet the coronaplague is subsiding at only roughly the rate we&#8217;d expect for a country in lockdown. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/health-coronavirus-israel\/update-1-israel-imposing-third-national-covid-19-lockdown-idUSL1N2J40HC\">Israel went into its third lockdown in December<\/a> and, of course, the country is fully masked as well.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are some charts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-1520x856.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31019\" width=\"505\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-1520x856.png 1520w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-1024x577.png 1024w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-768x433.png 768w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-1536x865.png 1536w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-1-2048x1153.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 505px) 100vw, 505px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shouldn&#8217;t we expect a discontinuity in hospitalizations if the vaccine is working as advertised?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How about deaths, the most reliable statistic?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31020\" width=\"495\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2.png 974w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2-300x148.png 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-2-768x380.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do we explain these banal curves given the widespread use of the revolutionary plague-ending vaccine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For comparison, how about the U.S. case count, plunging since January 1, 2021 despite no changes in policy or significant numbers of people vaccinated (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">from NYT<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-7.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-7.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31090\" width=\"465\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-7.png 967w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-7-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-7-768x519.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 465px) 100vw, 465px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the plunging hospitalizations, which presumably should lead to a plunge in deaths (since the only thing worse than death is death without Medicare being billed for a hospital stay):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31091\" width=\"491\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8.png 966w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/image-8-768x361.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Related:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/27\/if-covid-19-vaccines-werent-tested-on-likely-covid-19-victims-how-do-we-know-that-they-will-reduce-covid-19-deaths\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"29572\">If COVID-19 vaccines weren\u2019t tested on likely COVID-19 victims, how do we know that they will reduce COVID-19 deaths?<\/a> (December 27, 2020)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2021\/02\/05\/world\/covid-19-coronavirus#in-israel-the-vaccine-has-driven-down-cases-and-hospitalizations\">NYT regarding Israel<\/a>: &#8220;The new Israeli research looked at national health statistics for people 60 years and older, who received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine first because of their high risk. Analyzing data from six weeks into the vaccination campaign, when the majority of people that age had been vaccinated, they found that the number of new Covid-19 cases dropped by 41 percent compared to three weeks earlier. That group also experienced a 31 percent drop in hospitalizations from the coronavirus, and a drop of 24 percent of those who became critically ill.&#8221; (i.e., despite a national lockdown, they had 76 percent as many &#8220;critically ill&#8221; among their newly vaccinated population compared to the no-lockdown no-vaccine situation).<\/li><li>Don&#8217;t share this on Facebook&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/08\/technology\/facebook-vaccine-misinformation.html\">&#8220;Facebook says it plans to remove posts with false vaccine claims.&#8221;<\/a> (NYT, February 8): \u201cBuilding trust and confidence in these vaccines is critical, so we\u2019re launching the largest worldwide campaign to help public health organizations share accurate information about Covid-19 vaccines and encourage people to get vaccinated as vaccines become available to them,\u201d Kang-Xing Jin, head of health at Facebook, said in a company blog post.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[February 11 update: Only five days later, some more data&#8230; &#8220;It works: 0 deaths, only 4 severe cases among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis&#8221; (Times of Israel, but no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronapanic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If the vaccine works, why isn&#039;t the plague over in Israel? 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