An oft overlooked point.sTeamTraen wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 8:05 pmAlso important is the "one-minus" effect. A country with 70% of >12s vaccinated (i.e., 30% unvaccinated; Austria isn't much higher than that) is 3x as badly off as one with 90% of >12s vaccinated (e.g., Spain).Herainestold wrote: ↑Sun Nov 21, 2021 7:35 pmWith respect to vaccination coverage, its not the just the proportion vaccinated, but the age distribution of the vaccinated. If you still have 10% of your over 50s unvaccinated, that may not seem like a huge number, but that is the cohort most at risk that fills up the hospitals.
Austria has 64% (total population) fully vaccinated so that is 36% unvaccinated.
UK has 67% vaccinated so that is 33% unvaccinated.
Austria has 10% more unvaccinated people than UK.
Is that enough to make a big difference and prevent a fourth wave in UK?
Props to Spain for showing the rest of us how it is done.