Alright let's do a comparison and do the maths, so right now there is Omicron and its many many more times more contagious than previous variants, there is currently 90.46% 12 years and over have had at least 2 doses of vaccination or 77% of the whole of Australia's population have had at least 2 doses.
There have been 499,958 cases in Australia since the Covid pandemic began, there are currently a whopping
218,505 Active Covid cases as of 3rd of January 2022.
Out of those 218,505 Active Covid cases, there are 2158 currently in hospital, the percentage of Covid cases in hospital currently is
0.9876204205853414% thanks to the vaccines, many of those who have caught Covid did not get it as bad compared to if they weren't vaccinated, and it even prevented people from dying from Covid. Also remembering there was the terrible Delta variant, and there still is a bit of Delta around, even though omicron is taking over the Delta variant.
Let's compare to 12th of August 2020, there were 8,195 active cases, which was the peak number of active cases in Australia during the 2nd wave with the long hard lockdown. 685 out of 8,195 active cases were hospitalised on the 12th of August, which was
8.35875533862111% of the active Covid cases back then, this was before vaccines in Australia and before Delta and just after a hard lockdown had started, 10 days later on August the 22nd, 2020, there were still 631 hospitalisations, even though the active cases number had dropped to 4555 active cases, at that point
13.85290889132821% of active cases were in hospital.
So do vaccines drop the chance of hospitalization? You betcha it does, and it actually drops the chance of hospitalization significantly, so Covid vaccines definitely do work.
This is where I pull my stats from for Australia.
499,958 Coronavirus cases in Australia - COVID Live and I work out the percentages by using a percentage calculator online.
