Misinterpreted international data is being used to suggest falsely that unvaccinated people are less likely to contract COVID-19 than vaccinated people. In many countries, vaccinated people make up the majority of COVID-19 cases because they make up the vast majority of the population. Imagine a population of 10,000 people with a 90 percent vaccination rate. If 50 vaccinated people and 40 unvaccinated people get COVID-19, that means that vaccinated people have an infection rate of only 0.6 percent compared to 4 percent for unvaccinated people. In this scenario, unvaccinated people are more than 7 times more likely to be infected despite making up a smaller portion of total COVID-19 cases.
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