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2023-04-06 09:50:10 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A3250B4DD9607F75180C19DA3295EABF90E14FF5787529C488A1B578C7F8F947
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Most elderly in Scotland are fully vaccinated and boosted therefore will makeup the largest share of cases (base rate fallacy). Those who are boosted are less likely to suffer severe hospitalization and death from COVID-9 adjusting for population differences. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-compare-covid-deaths-for-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people/ https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(22)00345-0/fulltext https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.21.23284855v1 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4314067
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