Among the 3,552 unvaccinated who caught the disease, 55 ended up in ICU and 21 died. Of the 267,381 double-dose vaccinated who caught the coronavirus, 215 ended up in ICU and 67 died. In comparison, 315 people who had no effective dose were admitted to hospital. It shows that of the 379,056 cases over that period, 2,627 people who received two vaccine doses were hospitalised. The data is from the beginning of the Omicron wave in NSW in November 2021 to the first week of January 2022. Table 5 (page 7) of the report shows the clinical severity of COVID by vaccination status, including hospitalisations, ICU admissions and deaths. NSW Health’s COVID-19 Weekly Surveillance report on January 20 clearly lays out the higher risk of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated. Ninety-four per cent of those aged 16 and over had received two COVID vaccinations on February 2.

However, the post ignores that the overwhelming majority of people in NSW are at least double vaccinated. “Huge clear majority of cases in Hospitals and ICU are double vaxxed If we speak deaths close to 73 per cent of those dying are double vaxxed,” it says. Of those in ICU, 62.7 per cent were vaccinated and 36.3 per cent unvaccinated. The post’s text highlights data to show 71.8 per cent of people in hospital with COVID-19 were vaccinated and 25.8 per cent unvaccinated. It highlights two sets of figures: Public health data showing the percentage of cases hospitalised among the unvaccinated compared to the double-dose vaccinated (as at January 23), and the percentage of cases in ICU who are unvaccinated compared with double-dose vaccinated. The post shares a screenshot of the NSW government’s COVID-19 Risk Monitoring Dashboard for January 25. With pediatric vaccinations underway and the wait for booster shots reduced to three months, the Instagram post claims COVID vaccines are “not helping to stop the spread, not helping to protect your loved ones, not getting you out of hospital”. An epidemiologist told AAP FactCheck the same government figures show a ninefold reduction in hospital admissions for the double vaccinated. A social media post claims NSW government figures show vaccines are not reducing hospital admissions and people should “think about it properly before you get you (sic) kids jabbed”.īut the post misinterprets publicly available data.

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