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Originally Posted by opendoor
Unfortunately it's not the under 40 crowd in BC that needs to get vaccinated to protect the hospital system. It's the unvaccinated 50+ year olds that are by far the biggest liability. This chart is based on Israel's recent numbers, but it clearly shows how stratified the risk of severe disease is among the age groups:
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Based on those numbers, the 200K 50-59 year olds and 115K 60-69 year olds who aren't vaccinated in BC would be expected to take up about 30x the hospital beds as the 362K unvaccinated 20-29 year olds. Yeah, vaccinating more young people will reduce spread somewhat, but ultimately the people at risk of being hospitalized are the ones that need to be vaccinated the most. |
BC has better full vaccination by almost every metric than Alberta and many other provinces, and superior coverage among those under 40. The 60+ demographic is also sitting well over 80% fully vaxxed in the province (increasing with age). That age is more likely to suffer severe outcomes, but you're comparing already great coverage to shameful coverage in some of the younger demographics.
The younger people that are unvaxxed and out living life the most, are the ones causing these 4th wave surges, that is not even up for debate. When you have uptake numbers in the 25-35 crowd so shamefully low, it's obvious you need to penalize people in order to further raise uptake, and a vaccine card is the way to do it.
The fact appointments are surging after this announcement is pretty clear proof that it works and now is the time to do it before winter hits.