You are correct. It is a statistical error to compare rates for the vaccinated and unvaccinated based on the general population total. If we lived in a perfect world, I’d want to see propensity score matching for patients and vaccination totals that weren’t “potentially incredibly overestimated” like Bloomberg admitted last month.

The biggest issue is that we cannot trust any of the data being presented. The definition of vaccinated is constantly changing, people are being included in counts when they aren’t even admitted for COVID, and there’s financial incentive to record “COVID cases” and “COVID deaths” that throw all data collection and analysis into question.

Until such time we can establish data integrity, comparing these rates is basically worthless.