B-rizzle
B-rizzle t1_j5ar8f3 wrote
Reply to comment by Obvious-Priority-791 in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons
"Here's how effective it is compared to an estimate of how bad it would have been." Exactly. It's a graph of actual deaths vs an imagined number of deaths in an imaginary scenario in which there was no vaccine.
B-rizzle t1_j5au7xa wrote
Reply to comment by Rugfiend in How Covid-19 vaccines succeeded in saving a million US lives, in charts by ILikeNeurons
It's referring specifically to a time when there was a vaccine, comparing to if there wasn't. The graph basically starts around where the vaccine was introduced. People died before and after the vaccine.