Gibraltar is often used as an example "look at the statistics, covid vaccinations do not work".
The data is misused grossly out of context.
Gibraltar has not vaccinated 100 % of its population, although such claims are common. no country or region has. They have given 79 000 vaccine doses to 35 000 people, but one needs to understand:
- Gibraltar has a population of 34 000 (2020, according to Wikipedia)
- there are about 13 000 commuters who come to work each day from Spain (according to LaingBouisson)
- In normal times, there are about 30 000 tourists arriving each day (according to Statista). During epidemic this number is smaller, but Gibraltar still lives out of tourism.
- But there is covid testing, and infections are recorded.
Thus, if you divide number of infections per day in Gibraltar with the number of permanent residents, you are making an irrelevant arithmetic operation.
