The bigger problem is that the risk of hospitalization post-vaccine appears to be lower than the risk of death pre-vaccine. If seven of those eight hospitalized post-vaccine would have died when naively infected, then the difference disappears. Seven out of 32000 is 0.02%, while the risk of death from COVID-19 is 0.4%.
And if you remove hospitalization as an endpoint, you're basically dependent on self-reports. That's not to say I don't believe the conclusions -- they should survive this critique -- but there is reason to expect a little inflation of the ORs.
And if you remove hospitalization as an endpoint, you're basically dependent on self-reports. That's not to say I don't believe the conclusions -- they should survive this critique -- but there is reason to expect a little inflation of the ORs.