Reader-submitted content – Authored by Daniel Khmelev via The Epoch Times
For the first time, New South Wales (NSW) has seen more fully vaccinated patients hospitalized with COVID-19 compared to the number of unvaccinated patients as the Omicron outbreak continues to edge toward its peak.
Data published by the NSW government’s COVID-19 Critical Intelligence Unit has revealed that as of Jan. 9, 68.9 percent of COVID-19 patients aged 12 and over in hospitals had two doses of the vaccine, with 28.8 percent unvaccinated.
The number of double-dose vaccinated patients in intensive care units (ICUs) also surpassed those of the unvaccinated, with 50.3 percent of the vaccinated presenting to ICU with COVID-19, more than the 49.1 percent who are unvaccinated.
However, based on the data presented, unvaccinated individuals appear to be six times more likely to be hospitalised and nearly 13 times more likely to be sent to ICU than those who are fully vaccinated.
This is considering that the number of unvaccinated patients appears to be over-represented in the figures—7.3 percent of the NSW population aged 12 and over at the time were unvaccinated, but they made up half of the COVID-19 ICU patients in the NSW Health system. At present Australia does not permit alternative treatment approaches utilised and available in other countries, such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
According to NSW Health, 95.1 percent of people aged 16 and over have received the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 93.7 percent have received two doses as of Jan. 11.
The rise in the proportion of hospitalisations amongst the fully vaccinated comes both amid the spread of the Omicron variant of the CCP virus in Australia, along with the loss in the efficacy of the available COVID-19 vaccines.
A spokesperson for NSW Health told The Epoch Times on Jan. 11 that Omicron had supplanted Delta as the primary variant spreading in NSW, but that it also appeared to be less dangerous than its predecessor.
“The Omicron variant is associated with a lower rate of hospitalisation and ICU admission,” the spokesperson said.
While the state recorded 32,155 cases of the virus on Jan. 9, 2,030 were hospitalised, and only 159 had been sent to ICU. As of Jan. 12, the total number of cases has jumped to 53,909, with 2,242 hospitalised and 175 in ICU.
“NSW Health urges the community to continue to practise COVID-safe behaviours to keep themselves and the community safe, including wearing a mask indoors, maintaining physical distancing, and practising hand hygiene.”
The spokesperson also reminded those eligible to receive their third booster dose of an available COVID-19 vaccine—which can now be done four months after receiving the second dose—to raise the effectiveness of immunity granted by the vaccine.
“We continue to encourage everyone who has not yet done so to get vaccinated and anyone who is now eligible for their booster dose to get it without delay. The COVID-19 vaccines available in Australia are safe and very effective at reducing the risk of serious illness and death.”
In the United States, it has been reported that 2 out of the three available COVID-19 vaccines dropped below 50 percent efficacy after six months, according to a study published in November 2021.
To combat this, NSW has mandated booster shots for all education staff, joining other states that have implemented vaccine booster requirements.
NSW is also currently working to better understand the effects of the new COVID-19 variants.
“NSW Health is prioritising the whole genome sequencing of COVID-19 for patients in ICU in order to better understand the impact of both the Delta and Omicron variants,” the spokesperson said.
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People are finding out the hard way that this horsepiss, which is reaping a financial windfall for BIG PHARM and all the politicians who hold blocks of stock in BIG PHARM, is at best a placebo.
This is the problem with clueless people reading statistics. If 95 percent of population is vaccinated, and the number of hospitalized people is 50% vaccinated and 50% unvaccinated, the vaccinated people are 20 times less likely to be hospitalized.
Sorin, you are again a hoot in here, as you twist yourself into a complex pretzel shape trying to defend this Biden-esque horsepiss you call a vaccine, even though it is not a vaccine, at all.
WHY ARE VACCINATED PEOPLE GETTING SICK FROM THAT WHICH THEY ARE VACCINATED AGAINST?
Answer that simple question if you would, instead of squirming all over the place in your failed attempt to make unvaccinated people some kind of societal criminals in here.
I have been vaccinated against many things, including polio, and after I was vaccinated against polio, lo and behold, I didn’t get polio, because that is what the vaccine was for, to prevent me from getting polio.
So what is up with this weak and watery horsepiss you are trying to defend, even though you can’t?
What kind of vaccine leaves you susceptible to that which you have been vaccinated against?
“WHY ARE VACCINATED PEOPLE GETTING SICK FROM THAT WHICH THEY ARE VACCINATED AGAINST?”
Because the COVID vaccine unlike other ones does not prevent infection, though it seems to reduce it some. Also, it reduces the risk of hospitalization 20 times according to the numbers above. This is not that complicated Paul, even you could understand this if you try hard enough.
Then don’t call the horsepiss a vaccine, thank you very much, because by your own admission it is NOT a vaccine.
And the whole premise behind the **** is SCIENTIFICALLY ABSURD!
That’s why it is not a vaccine.
This is not that complicated, Sorin, and even you could understand this if you try hard enough.
Some people are easily hoodwinked by statistics. Thank you for a good analysis.
And some people are very easily hoodwinked by CEO’s of BIG PHARM and actors who play infectious disease experts and chief medical advisors on television.
A shame people are either so gullible or so programmed to obey without question what an un-elected BIG PHARM CEO orders them to do as if that were a Constitutional command, is it not, Suzanne.
And some people are pure evil, and know full well what they are doing. Sorin works in the interest of International Socialism, and as such prefers to see people die or lose their livelihood and suffer.
EACH and every one of his policy proposals has been proven to be ineffective, and deleterious to a civil society and yet he perserveres.
Pure. Evil.
Sorin is becoming the ideal model of the quintessential Good American because he knows to obey without question those he deems his superiors.