Given 85% in the cohorts likely to die are vaccinated but a little less than half who die are vaccinated, half actually implies the vaccine is roughly 85% effec

Given 85% in the cohorts likely to die are vaccinated but a little less than half who die are vaccinated, half actually implies the vaccine is roughly 85% effective against death. So trying to emphasize half of those who die are vaccinated in a headline about a place with a higher rate of vaccination than the reader's is trying to put a bias into the head of people who skim the news.