Thank you for your input, Susie.

Yes, the 28 days thing has been a problem all along for this virus, even before the vaccines. It's counted as a Covid death if they die within 28 days of a diagnosis. They could have just died of old age or a heart attack. But you also make a good point about the deaths occuring before the vaccine has had a chance to work. I remember seeing something a while back, just after they started vaccinating old people, deaths shot up really rapidly just after the vaccination program got started. But of course, correlation is not necessarily causation, so we can't be sure what was going on there.

You make a valid point about the absolute numbers. I should probably do a followup article with a more detailed analysis. I do actually already have a spreadsheet with a lot more data on it, though. On that spreadsheet it shows that vaccinated people are 5.6 times more likely to die from Delta if they catch it, but unvaccinated people are about 5 times more likely to catch it in the first place. So then if we divide 5.6 by 5, we get 1.12, so fully vaccinated people are very slightly more at risk from Delta than unvacinated people. Unless I've misunderstood the numbers there?

It will be interesting to see what happens over the next few months, though.