Quote from a CNN article on 9 April 2021-- "In addition, real world studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines show they are only 90% protective against the coronavirus, not 95% as reported in clinical trials. Translated into reality, that means for every million fully vaccinated people who fly, some 100,000 could still become infected." (How to fly safely a year into the pandemic)
Unless my own brain has gone blank, that assumes that if 1 million unvaccinated people fly, 1 million of them will catch COVID-19. I thought their other reported numbers looked more likely, but if the person writing this doesn't get what the 90% means....
How can we address this kind of misuse or misunderstanding of statistics and epidemiology? I've looked for a way to contact CNN with no luck.
Dr. Schmidtke, thank you so much for today's update! I've been watching the counties up here in Northwest Georgia, ours is Whitfield, and those surrounding us to the east and west and north-not so much the south of us yet-but the last two weeks, I've been able to see a day by day difference. I hadn't been keeping my case count since March but the hospitalizations and death numbers up here have been concerning for some time. We realized this week how bad our ICU situation had gotten again here in Region A. Counties are ticking up that are very rural and really shouldn't be rising unless something new was happening.
I know you must be getting tired of the pandemic. Listening to the latest TWIV episode, even the esteemed host of TWIV is ready to begin moving on from Sars CoV-2. Please know how much we appreciate your insights and ability to help us see the bigger picture. My husband, Blaine, reads your posts as often as he can and they are crucial in his ability to keep abreast of what is happening on the ground so that he can share that information with his patients and can understand this virus that we are all so weary of but that does not yet seem to be weary of us.
Quote from a CNN article on 9 April 2021-- "In addition, real world studies of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines show they are only 90% protective against the coronavirus, not 95% as reported in clinical trials. Translated into reality, that means for every million fully vaccinated people who fly, some 100,000 could still become infected." (How to fly safely a year into the pandemic)
Unless my own brain has gone blank, that assumes that if 1 million unvaccinated people fly, 1 million of them will catch COVID-19. I thought their other reported numbers looked more likely, but if the person writing this doesn't get what the 90% means....
How can we address this kind of misuse or misunderstanding of statistics and epidemiology? I've looked for a way to contact CNN with no luck.
Dr. Schmidtke, thank you so much for today's update! I've been watching the counties up here in Northwest Georgia, ours is Whitfield, and those surrounding us to the east and west and north-not so much the south of us yet-but the last two weeks, I've been able to see a day by day difference. I hadn't been keeping my case count since March but the hospitalizations and death numbers up here have been concerning for some time. We realized this week how bad our ICU situation had gotten again here in Region A. Counties are ticking up that are very rural and really shouldn't be rising unless something new was happening.
I know you must be getting tired of the pandemic. Listening to the latest TWIV episode, even the esteemed host of TWIV is ready to begin moving on from Sars CoV-2. Please know how much we appreciate your insights and ability to help us see the bigger picture. My husband, Blaine, reads your posts as often as he can and they are crucial in his ability to keep abreast of what is happening on the ground so that he can share that information with his patients and can understand this virus that we are all so weary of but that does not yet seem to be weary of us.