kibitzer wrote:
Once again: "Cases" are simply positive tests. A society in which people are proactive enough to get vaccinated in large numbers...is *also* one in which many people will proactively get themselves tested. By contrast, people who decline to be vaccinated are also very likely to *avoid* getting tested, at least until they show up in an emergency room.
Hospitalizations and deaths are much more relavant statistics.
Cases are a subset of infections. The number of infections must be estimated. The CDC had infections at over 120 Million as of late May. Case fatality rate and infection fatality rate are two different numbers.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html