deaths linked to Covid-19 vaccinated

 This article is hilariously self contradicting.

What's the vaccine status of the 78 seniors who died from Covid? 

Apparently all are vaccinated. If that is so, does the vaccine really work at all to prevent anything? 

Apparently when there is no unvax senior died from Covid, nothing will be mentioned.

Such news report is really substandard as it is guilty of selection bias in reporting. 

If the Vaccine didn't help to prevent deaths for those above 60s, do you think it will help for those 50s and younger? 

The truth is only 1 young chap who was unvax died from Covid basically because he has serious pre existing conditions which most probably made him to decide not to take the vaccine. 

These data 

Really shows that those Vax have more death as compared to those Unvax. There are about 5% totally unvax but only 1 out of 83 Covid deaths is Unvax! That's only 1.2%! 

These are the cold hard facts.

Singapore  🇸🇬 

THE STRAITS TIMES: 

Seniors account for 78 of 83 Covid-19 deaths in 2024; MOH urges them to get vaccinated .

The 83 deaths linked to Covid-19 so far in 2024 is much lower than the 317 deaths in 2023 and the 860 in 2022. 

reporter: Salma Khalik

4 of the people who died were in their 50s, and one person was 16 years or younger.

● they did not do a break down of vx vs non vax

● The claim that "only 1.2% of deaths were unvaccinated" is misleading because it ignores relative population sizes. If only 5% are unvaccinated but still represent 1 out of 83 deaths, this suggests that their risk of death is significantly higher.

Example (Hypothetical):

If 95 out of 100 seniors are vaccinated and 5 are not:

78 vaccinated deaths (out of 95) = 82% survival rate

1 unvaccinated death (out of 5) = 80% survival rate

This shows that unvaccinated seniors face greater mortality risk even if raw numbers seem small.

To assess vaccine effectiveness, the correct measure is the death rate per 100,000 people in each group, not the total count. This reveals that unvaccinated seniors die at a much higher rate.

● lol! no wonder PAP so screw up! They don't know statistics!

●  brain rot example of using statistics

Plucking numbers everywhere and using them to divide by something to get nonsensical percentages

● Journalistic quality, integrity and freedom aside, seem missing in the $900,000,000 tax funded media … why vax (more) if the vax is ineffective or cause side effects ?

● All 78 seniors who died from Covid are vaccinated

Government: urges all seniors to get vaccinated

🤡 JOKER 🃏 

● Waiting for pm to get his 9th booster shot

The Straits Times 

Seniors account for 78 of 83 Covid-19 deaths in 2024; MOH urges them to get vaccinated

The 83 deaths linked to Covid-19 so far in 2024 is much lower than the 317 deaths in 2023 and the 860 in 2022.

PHOTO: ST FILE

Reporter Salma Khalik

UPDATED Dec 30, 2024, 11:08 AM

SINGAPORE - Seniors aged 60 years and older, and those who are medically vulnerable, should get a booster vaccination against Covid-19 to protect themselves against serious illness and death.

This call from the Ministry of Health (MOH) comes in the light of the 83 people who have died from the infectious disease in 2024.

Of them, 78 were aged 60 and above, four were aged 50 to 59, and one was 16 years or younger.

MOH said all four adults in their 50s who died had other medical problems, and three had not received a booster shot within the past year.

The vaccination status of the fourth adult, a foreigner visiting Singapore, is not known.

The young person who died had other medical problems and had “no history of Covid-19 vaccination”.

The 83 deaths linked to Covid-19 so far in 2024 are much lower than the 317 deaths in 2023 and the 860 in 2022.

An MOH spokesman said that in general, the Covid-19 situation here has been stable, in spite of the year-end travel season. The peak of around 26,000 cases a week occurred in May, when there was a wave of cases caused by the KP.1/2 variant.

But he added: “Our concern continues to be with severe cases, which tend to be seniors.”

In the first 11 months of the year, 108 people needed intensive care for Covid-19 infection. Of them, 80 per cent were seniors aged 60 and above, he said.

The most prevalent Covid-19 strain circulating in Singapore today is the MV.1, which accounts for more than a third of cases that have been sequenced.

This strain is a descendent of JN.1 – the target of the current Covid-19 vaccine MOH rolled out on Oct 28. Given the relationship between the two strains, the vaccine is able to “provide protection against the MV.1 descendant”.

The spokesman said: “Based on international data, antibody levels against recent variants increased by more than tenfold with the updated JN.1 vaccine. Similar enhancement in the antibody levels is expected for the MV.1 strain, which is genetically related to the JN.1 variant.”

More than 35,000 people have received the latest vaccine, of whom 60 per cent are seniors. About 410,000 people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 in 2024. Prior to Oct 28, 2024, the vaccine given was targeted at the XBB.1.5 strain.

MOH said both the XBB.1.5 and the JN.1 vaccines can enhance protection against the MV.1 subvariant, but the JN.1 vaccine is likely to provide better protection. This is because recently circulating strains, such as MV.1, are more genetically related and similar to JN.1 than XBB.1.5.

The spokesman added: “Currently, there is no indication that the MV.1 is more transmissible or causes more severe disease compared with previously identified variants.”

2,102 people in S’pore have died from Covid-19 since start of pandemic to June 2024: MOH

Enough Paxlovid to treat Covid-19 in at-risk adults, but it is no longer free: MOH

The Covid-19 vaccine remains free and is available at polyclinics and about 500 general practitioner clinics.

Experts recommend that those who are vulnerable get the vaccine booster shot.

Professor Ooi Eng Eong, an expert in emerging diseases at the Duke-NUS Medical School, recommends revaccination “for the elderly and those with chronic diseases where any infection could tip the scale for the worse”.

Professor Dale Fisher, a senior infectious diseases consultant at the National University Hospital, said people might want to get a booster before travelling. He took a booster shot before a trip to Europe this winter.

He added: “I got vaccinated two weeks before I left to protect against my increased vulnerability as a traveller and to minimise the chances of wrecking my trip. No illness after two weeks on the road.”

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong tested positive for Covid-19 earlier in December, his first brush with the disease. While he was feeling fine, he self-isolated, which is what MOH recommends, to prevent the spread of the disease.

MOH says people with Covid-19 who need to go out should wear a mask and minimise social interactions.