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Originally Posted by username
20% increase in cases, ok, what about hospitalizations? Now that we have almost 80% with one does, cases shouldn't matter, especially if the majority of those cases have mild symptoms due to having at least one dose. I almost wish they would just stop reporting daily positive cases and only track hospitalizations, given that's the only metric that matters.
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Of course cases still matter. Hospitalizations are still going to directly track with them, just the denominator changes with higher vaccination rates. It'll just be something like 1% of cases ending up in hospital instead of 4%, or something like that.
And even if not a single vaccinated person was hospitalized, there are still enough unvaccinated people to easily fill up Alberta's hospitals if it's spreading widely. So case rates are vital in determining what the risk to the unvaccinated population is. If they're low, then the risk of a bunch of them getting infected and filling up the hospitals is low. If it's flying through the population, then there's a very big risk of that happening, even if infections among the vaccinated remain generally mild.