Originally Posted by Jester
Semi correct. Yes get your booster (2nd booster - but in September.

The current vaccine and prior covid infection are poorly protective against current predominate circulating strain.
There is an updated vaccine that will available in September (perhaps early October) that should be protective.

As for the numbers shown, 67% of deaths are vaccinated suggests that the majority of people now dying from covid are vaccinated implying that you are more likely to die from covid if you are vaccinated. But 67% of the population is vaccinated and/or boosted so essentially, no difference. However if you do a deeper dive into the numbers presented vaccinated and boosted are less likely to die from covid. Unvaccinated is essentially exactly the percentage. And vaccinated but not boosted are more likely to die.

This can be explained as follows:
1st - vaccinated and boosted is not broken down to vaccinated and boosted once vs vaccinated and doubly boosted.
I would bet if you looked at those numbers the doubly boosted would have even fewer deaths and the vaccinated and boosted would be equivalent ot the vaccinated not boosted.

2nd - Almost everyone vaccinated shortly after the vaccine came out and not boosted will not still have protective levels of antibodies. Depending on when someone got boosted, they may or may not have good levels. However, many of them are going to presume that they still have protective antibodies at adequate levels so will act as if they are protected and actually increasing their risk of getting covid.

Even more importantly - old people are more likely to be both vaccinated and boosted and are more likely to die of Covid (regardless of vaccination status). If you don't break down the answer for people of different ages, you will get the wrong answer.

To make up illustrative numbers:

Pretend that 50% of the population is "old" and 50% is "young", and that 90% of the old population is vaccinated and 10% of the young percentage is vaccinated. If old people had a 1% chance of dying of Covid if they are unvaccinated and a 0.1% chance of dying of covid if they are vaccinated -- and young people have a 0.1% chance of dying of Covid if they are unvaccinated and 0.01% chance of dying of Covid if they are vaccinated, then if everybody got Covid, the number of unvaccinated deaths and vaccinated deaths would be essentially equal - even though the vaccine decreases the chance that you die by 90% in both age groups.

This Scientific American article also explains: https://www.scientificamerican.com/...-for-vaccinated-and-unvaccinated-people/