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Postby Splitpin » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:03 pm

I'm not going any further with this, but I do wonder sometimes about our media friends...and their bias.
A headline on stuff news today "1 third of Covid cases in hospital are NOT vaccinated" ....... great research, but surely a more dramatic approach would have been" 2 thirds of Covid cases in hospital ARE vaccinated"
But I guess that doesn't really fit their scaremongering brief....just saying.
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Re: Interesting stats

Postby toprob » Fri Jan 21, 2022 6:20 pm

I saw that news item, and I did think it was very poor. Giving the percentages of hospitalisations doesn't really serve any purpose, unless it also factors in the percentage of those vaccinated overall. So if the percentage of those still unvaccinated is 10% then the large chunk of hospitalisations should be quite scary to the unvaccinated. Overall the media's bias towards supporting vaccinations is ok to me, they just should take a bit more care to present things clearly.
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