How high is the protection rate from hospitilization and death among non-vaccinated people?
There should be data out there based on unvaccinated comparison groups. But I can't find any.
Without having any data available, I just assume that the protection rate from hospitalization and death among unvaccinated folks (those with and without pre-existing medical diseases) who solely rely on their immune system (as we have learned during the first corona wave) is also somewhat inbetween 80-95 %.
Saying that those having been vaccinated twice have a protection rate from hospitalization and death of 80-95%, implies that this high number is solely due to the vaccine's impact, which would be misleading, of course.
So, it is clear that the vaccine can protect from infection and symptoms of infection, and especially when it comes to reducing the number of infections, it can help curb the spreading of the virus.
But it is not really clear to me, inasmuch the vaccine can protect people from hospitalization and death.