The case numbers will still be important for some time to come though. They’ll tell scientists how effective the vaccines are in terms of preventing transmissibility - especially important as new vaccines get developed and also how we deal with inevitable, new variants.
But to answer your question, in total, from non vaxxed and vaxxed, the UK is experiencing just over a 1,000 hospitalisations a day (below). Way too many to keep having to cope with. The total split between unvaccinated and vaccinated I’m not sure. All I’ve read is the following:
“But of the people admitted to hospital between Sept. 13 and Oct. 10, the vast majority were unvaccinated. Hospitalization rates were more than twice as high in unvaccinated people across all age groups, compared to those who had received two doses of a vaccine.”
But what’s concerning is that with 80% of +12 fully vaccinated in the UK, you’d expect the elderly to have a very high rate off full vaccination. But unfortunately, and somewhat confusingly given the aforementioned 2:1 unvaccinated v vax hospitalisation rates, the elderly are making up by far the highest proportion of hospitalisations (below). Ergo, the vaccines are maybe losing their effectiveness more critically for the elderly ? And that’s why the BMA and other health bodies are so concerned about the booster program in the UK.
It could be affected by the non vaxxed elderly too, of course. Hard to say from afar.
