Exactly! If your numbers are saying over 100% of the population is vaxxed, your numbers cannot be trusted for anything :/ They mess up even the most basic shit.
Exactly! If your numbers are saying over 100% of the population is vaxxed, your numbers cannot be trusted for anything :/ They mess up even the most basic shit.
Alternately, people are coming in from the neighboring counties to get vaccinated in King County. We saw a bit of this in hospitalization rates in March/April 2020 when it was clear that nursing home residents from Snohomish were being hospitalized in King.
Everyone has an incentive to push up the vax numbers. Clinics probably get paid per dose. Local officials and governors want high numbers to make them look good. Meanwhile, around here they're telling people to get vaxxed, no ID needed. I'm surprised we haven't reached 200 %.
Exactly! If your numbers are saying over 100% of the population is vaxxed, your numbers cannot be trusted for anything :/ They mess up even the most basic shit.
Or maybe public health officials, who have embraced the "noble lie", want the unvaxxed to seem like a smaller minority. They did it before when they said 99% of hospital staff were fully vaxxed but neglected to mention the many exemptions. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as-seen-on/mt-sinais-long-beach-site-to-temporarily-close-due-to-vax-related-staff-shortages/3415030/
Alternately, people are coming in from the neighboring counties to get vaccinated in King County. We saw a bit of this in hospitalization rates in March/April 2020 when it was clear that nursing home residents from Snohomish were being hospitalized in King.
Everyone has an incentive to push up the vax numbers. Clinics probably get paid per dose. Local officials and governors want high numbers to make them look good. Meanwhile, around here they're telling people to get vaxxed, no ID needed. I'm surprised we haven't reached 200 %.