Covid-19 Vaccination Efficacy and Mortality: A Monitor

Because of the unverified safety of all Covid-19 vaccines available today, there is a need to balance the great optimism in most reports with the stark facts of reported adverse effects and current levels of acceptance among citizens in different countries. By definition, vaccination protects the person from targeted viruses by initiating immune response using non-virulent materials from the target virus. Consequently, if infection occurs, the person should have already developed antibodies and immune elements that destroy the invading viruses.

That is the expectation on any vaccine. A vaccine that does not protect against the target virus is not an effective vaccine. A vaccine that does not reliably protect is not a reliable vaccine.

(All information in this article may not be updated quickly. However, at the time of writing, these facts can be verified in news reports from reliable sources.)

ENGLAND

Christian Yates (University of Bath) reported in Scitech Daily that within 28 days (1 February to 21 June) 257 Englishmen died from Covid-19 infection. Of these, 163 English men had been vaccinated at least once, or a rate of 63.4%). Thus, the death rate of the unvaccinated Englishmen was only 36.6%. [News report]

Marianne Guenot of Business Insider reported a total death of 117 Englishmen from the Delta variant during a similar period, based Public Health England data. Of these, 109 Englishmen aged older than 50 years, or 93.2%. Of these, 70 Englishmen had been vaccinated (50 Englishmen received 2 doses; 20 received 1 dose), or a rate of 59.8%. Delta variant death rate among unvaccinated Englishmen is lower at 44 persons, or a rate of 37.6%. [News report]

PHILIPPINES

As of August 2021, the Philippines has inoculated around 20 million of Filipinos. Of these, 735 Filipinos who received Covid-19 vaccination got infected with SARS-CoV-2. Of these, in turn, 546 got infected by the coronavirus after receiving their first dose, or a vulnerability rate of 74.3%. In effect, 189 Filipinos got infected after the second vaccination dose, or 25.7%.

Sheila Crisostomo of Philippine Star Global also reported that 61 Filipinos died among those who got infected post-vaccination. All these deaths received AstraZeneca (UK), Sinovac (China), and Sputnik V (Russia) vaccines. [News report]

SINGAPORE

As of July 2021, Singapore has vaccinated 75% of its 5.7 million citizens, making it the second highest vaccination rate by country in the world, second only to the United Arab Emirates. Of those vaccinated, around 75% became infected with SARS-CoV-2 virus in the last four weeks. This demonstrates that, within a period of 20 days, vaccination cannot protect people from getting infected by the virus. [News report]

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