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Ok, so let's do this taking the relative unvaxx'd vs vaxx'd populations into account - you need to do that because percentages are more important than total numbers. If you have 100 people, 90 boys and 10 girls and 10 boys & 5 girls die, twice as many boys died than girls, but you've lost only 11% of your boys while you lost 50% of your girls. Which group would you rather be in? Note this is not rigorous, just a back of the envelope calculation, right?

The population of the UK in 2022 was 67.5M; 93.6% had at least one shot (63.18M) and 6.4% were unvaxx'd (4.32M). Your data said there were 4635 unvaxx'd deaths and 25280 vaxx'd deaths (used the June 2021 - May 2022 numbers since they cover a longer time span)

The percentage of vaxx'd who died of Covid is 100(25280/63.18M) = 0.04%.

The percentage of unvaxx'd who died of Covid is 100(4635/4.32M) = 0.11%

So actually - an unvaxx'd individual had a much higher chance of dying of Covid than a vaxx'd person during that time frame.

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