And if 5 times that many people present to emergency services in the same 3 month period all elective and even urgent medical clinics, surgery and even other emergency work becomes impossible.
90 per ent of the covid cases we see in the icu are unvaccinated and the main part of the rest are immune suppressed in some way. The vaccine carries a risk but the excess mortality has fallen despite it being given to tens of millions of people.
The risk of death for all under 65 is low, the risk from the vaccine seems lower but vaccination is the principle reason there have been fewer restrictions despite a large wave of cases.