I am absolutely certain that many entities, on both sides of the situation, are juggling the stats in order to suit their agendas. Some on a relatively small scale, in terms of percentage, and some on a fairly grand scale. What I don't get is why people can't just leave other people the eff alone, about their choices to vaccinate or not. One person, here, a couple of months ago, went so far as to call people who got the vaccine "sheep". So yeah... I'm a little bit "prickly". (My choice was made after an abundance of reading and research, and watching what happened to other people.)
Unfortunately, I have no choice but to continue to interact with this person, lest I become the "bad guy".