COVID-19 Outbreak Information Updates (Reboot) [over 150.000,000 US cases (est.), 6,422,520 US hospitilizations, 1,148,691 US deaths.]
What I was going for is we really can't make COVID deaths a black and white. To say that hundreds of thousands of people have died avoiding the vaccine goes against all available data and I only brought up vaccination rate to show the fact that we can't make that a definitive statement when the group that is being hit the hardest is also this nations most vaccinated. This isn't to say that there weren't people in that demographic avoiding the shot but in 2021, they would have had a higher probability of being vaccinated than not. The problem is, we will never know because the CDC is too busy spoon feeding us rates while the UK is providing both rates and raw data in a palatable format every week.
That's not how numbers work. Let's say there's an outbreak of jubilation in the Superdome on gameday causing people to obstinately do the wave. For some reason, the upper level is hit the hardest with a lot more people participating uncontrollably. Having a beer effectively stops a person from participating in the wave. To stop the madness, the team sends out beer vendors, opting to send more beer venders to the upper level because that's the population most affected.
The top level is the most vulnerable population still despite a proven remedy. Even with the top level consuming the most beer, it doesn't affect the those who haven't had a beer because again, it's still the most vulnerable population. And since this was the group hardest hit by wave excitement, those we eschew having a beer still succumb to the wave.
Keep in mind that while the top level was the first and most often group to get beer, the superdome released beer to all other groups shortly after thereby limiting the spread of the wave in those levels that weren't hit as hard as the upper level seats.
But there's more! As people drink a beer and not do the wave or only partially participate in the wave halfheartedly a couple times before realizing, "this is silly", we can see the results of this happening right in front of us. Despite that, there's a couple of people in each section, some holding a beer and sitting safely in their seat, saying, "how do we know beer is helping?"
All silliness aside, the incidence of severe infection is much higher in unvaccinated populations. The data released by CDC shows this. The vaccine protects more people, but the elderly are still the most vulnerable population especially if they are unvaccinated.