Pandemic of the Vaccinated

The latest breakthrough numbers for Indiana are in and they don't look good for the vaccines: 87% of last week's cases are among the vaccinated as are 44% of deaths. And yet they account for only 2% of hospitalizations. Either the injections make you both more likely to get infected and yet far less likely to get very sick but they don't prevent you from dying...or something here doesn't add up.

Could the vaccinated be getting Omicron while the unvaccinated are getting much sicker with delta? Omicron accounted for 98% of cases as of January 10 in Indiana according to the state's coronavirus website. So there were (by my calculations) 1,600 cases of delta and 3,526 hospitalizations last week. Even if every man, woman and child with delta went to the hospital, over half the patients there had Omicron.

Hospitals Overrun with Unvaccinated?

How do Indiana's hospitalization numbers compare to Denmark's--a country with a very high vaccination rate compared to Indiana's 54%?

"Vaccination status - Newly admitted last 7 days."
Dark blue=fully vaccinated
Medium blue=partially vaccinated
Light blue=unvaccinated
Source: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/aa41b29149f24e20a4007a0c4e13db1d/page/page_5/

The vaccinated account for 75% of hospitalizations in Denmark. To be fair, unvaccinated Danes are going to the hospital at higher rates than vaccinated ones. But they don't make up anything in the neighborhood of 98% of patients.

Likewise in the UK, the vaccinated outnumber the unvaccinated in the hospital. The boosted in particular are occupying beds.

Source: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1050721/Vaccine-surveillance-report-week-4.pdf

Putting the UK's numbers in a chart based on the numbers from the table, we see it's similar to the one from Denmark, with the vaccinated making up two-thirds of hospitalizations:

I keep hearing that places with high vaccination rates will have more vaccinated patients just because almost everybody is vaccinated. Indiana is less vaccinated at 54%, but something in the chart below seems out of proportion.

Based on data from Indiana COVID and Regenstrief dashboards.

Either the vaccines are orders of magnitude more effective here than they are in Denmark and the UK, but only for hospitalizations, not cases or deaths, or there is some creative accounting going on.

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