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A VACCINATION SIMPSON’S PARADOX

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Isreal covid rates explained.Why the vaccines are effective, and still are effective. You need to take age and the amount of people vaccinated into consideration. Anti-Vaxxers on social media are trying to say the vaccines don't work, or worst still, may even be a leading cause of death. As usual, these people don't care for science or research, just the headlines will do. There is 90% vaccination rate in Israel among older people. The vaccines are 90% to 95 % effective, but there are still breakthrough cases: 1 in 15 maybe approximately, and more in older people. This can mean that still a lot of old people getting hospitalised, even if they  have been vaccinated, but the vaccines would have held back many more serious infections. With so many old people vaccinated (90%), they can

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Isreal covid rates explained.


Why the vaccines are effective, and still are effective. You need to take age and the amount of people vaccinated into consideration. 

Anti-Vaxxers on social media are trying to say the vaccines don't work, or worst still, may even be a leading cause of death. As usual, these people don't care for science or research, just the headlines will do. 


There is 90% vaccination rate in Israel among older people. The vaccines are 90% to 95 % effective, but there are still breakthrough cases: 1 in 15 maybe approximately, and more in older people. 


This can mean that still a lot of old people getting hospitalised, even if they  have been vaccinated, but the vaccines would have held back many more serious infections. With so many old people vaccinated (90%), they can outnumber the unvaxxed in hospitals, but this never happens in Western states where vaccination rates are lower. Also, most infections would have been fairly mild, and according to the stats, vaccine efficacy is still high. 

In sub-Sahara Africa vaccination rates are low and so are covid deaths, but their average age is under 40 years old, and in some parts, the average age is 18 years old. Contrarians are looking at the data at face value and using this in their propaganda. 


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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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