Vax rates, Cases, Deaths by County

Still no proof that higher vax rates = lower pandemic outcomes

We’ve been saying this for a while now but it’s clear that the vaccines are NOT our way out of this pandemic. As Dr. Jay Bhattacharya of Stanford tweeted:

“The vax provides a private benefit (protection vs. severe disease), but limited public benefit (protection vs. disease spread). So what is the argument for mandates?”

Now that October is over we ran the regressions again:

So I took:

• All U.S. counties with over 500K in population

• Avergae vax rates for the total population, 12+ yrs up, 18+ yrs up, and 65+ yrs

• COVID-19 Cases/100K

• COVID-19 Deaths/100K

• July through October ‘21

Results .07 was best Spearman r2. There’s no relation frankly.

Here are the charts.

• Deaths on the top row

• Cases on the bottom row

• Total, 12+, 18+, & 65+ average vax rates

• Size of the dot = population size of the county.