Researchers estimate that 61% of the people who succumbed to COVID since the vaccine was readily available to all in June 2021 would have survived if vaccinated.
That’s 234,000 Americans who volunteered for “Death by COVID”.
https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid19-and-other-…
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This is bound to lead a greater percentage of the surviving Republicans to believe in evolution!
Researchers estimate that 61% of the people who succumbed to COVID since the vaccine was readily available to all in June 2021 would have survived if vaccinated.
I’m surprised it’s only 61%. Seems like we’ve routinely been hearing stats like 90+% of all hospitalizations and deaths from Covid are among the unvaccinated. I wonder where the discrepancy is coming from?
Looking a bit more at the graphs in the study (https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/covid19-and-other-… ) I see that the percentage of deaths among the unvaccinated started off at 86% but steadily declined down to 71% Dec. 2021, and then a more pronounced drop to 58 and 60% Jan and Feb 2022.
I guess that reflects the declining efficacy of the vaccine over time, and then the Omicron variant surging this past winter, with it partial immunity escape due to dozens of mutations in the spike.
It also reflects how the booster shot didn’t get the same uptake as the original shots, leaving a lot of ‘fully vaccinated’ people without the maximum level of protection they could have had.
I guess that reflects the declining efficacy of the vaccine over time,…
And more effective treatments. Some anti-virals have been found to be effective, as well as antibody treatments. Different world from 20, where doctors had no clue what would work, and what didn’t…and interference from the nonsense about hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin, mainlining Lysol and shoving a UV light up your kazoo.
Steve