I believe your conclusions are not looking at the bigger picture.
If these numbers are accurate then this is actually good news.
If we assume that the vaccine provides some protection against the virus itself this suggests a fairly low mortality rate.
For example: if the virus provides immunity for 50% of the recipients (which is far below their in-house studies) then the mortality rate is only 0.6%. The demographics of that number is very important to come to any reasonable conclusions, but this number is not that much worse than the virus.
If we assume something closer to their actual estimates (90%) then the mortality rate is only 0.1%.
Is the vaccine more deadly than the virus itself? Unknown. Still a maybe.
Is the vaccine going to kill a sizable percentage of the population when they later encounter the real virus as was feared from previous coronavirus vaccines?
I believe your conclusions are not looking at the bigger picture.
If these numbers are accurate then this is actually good news.
If we assume that the vaccine provides some protection against the virus itself this suggests a fairly low mortality rate.
For example: if the virus provides immunity for 50% of the recipients (which is far below their in-house studies) then the mortality rate is only 0.6%. The demographics of that number is very important to come to any reasonable conclusions, but this number is not that much worse than the virus.
If we assume something closer to their actual estimates (90%) then the mortality rate is only 0.1%.
Is the vaccine more deadly than the virus itself? Unknown. Still a maybe.
Is the vaccine going to kill a sizable percentage of the population when they later encounter the real virus as was feared from previous coronavirus vaccines?
The data does not support that conclusion.
This has me hopeful. I was worried.
I hope these numbers are close to honest.