Well.....good news for the vaxxed--I guess this would be another way of saying the 99% of covid deaths are unvaccinated, eh?
However, and I gotta laugh, given that more than half of deaths occurred before a vaccine existed--this is perhaps a bit of a skewed stat. My take...the death toll fully vaccinated around 3%.
Still a good number.
'A modern miracle': Experts marvel at CDC data showing fully vaccinated make up less than 1% of COVID deaths
Scientists knew the COVID-19 vaccines were highly effective at preventing severe disease and death, but didn’t know exactly how effective until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data last week showing what experts called a “modern miracle.”
As of Oct. 12, the agency found only 7,178 deaths occurred among fully vaccinated people in the U.S. In a country that has reported more than 720,000 COVID-related deaths, the fully vaccinated make up less than 1%
“We were all hoping for something to help save our neighbors and our patients and certainly this data is tremendous,” said Dr. Joseph Teel, vice chair of clinical operations for the department of family medicine and community health at Penn Medicine. “It’s a modern miracle in many ways.”
I find this take a bit more sobering:
www.forbes.com
More Americans have died from Covid-19 so far in 2021 than in 2020, a sobering milestone after the year began with hopes that the United States was set to turn the corner on the pandemic with the rollout of vaccines -- and the death count is still rising steadily at a pace of over 2,000 a day.
As of Wednesday, U.S. localities have reported 353,000 deaths since January 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
That surpasses the 352,000 deaths reported in 2020 in the 10 months following the first recorded domestic outbreaks of the disease in March.
Last week, the U.S. surpassed 700,000 Covid-19 deaths, more than any other country, and 25,000 more than were killed by the Spanish flu of 1918, making Covid-19 the deadliest pandemic in American history. But there are signs of a reprieve. The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 dropped to a seven-day average of 66,131 in the week to Oct. 3 from 76,734 in the week to Sept. 26, according to the Centers for Disease Control, while the share of Americans who have received at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine has risen to 65%, driven partly by government and corporate vaccination mandates.
However, and I gotta laugh, given that more than half of deaths occurred before a vaccine existed--this is perhaps a bit of a skewed stat. My take...the death toll fully vaccinated around 3%.
Still a good number.
'A modern miracle': Experts marvel at CDC data showing fully vaccinated make up less than 1% of COVID deaths
Scientists knew the COVID-19 vaccines were highly effective at preventing severe disease and death, but didn’t know exactly how effective until the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data last week showing what experts called a “modern miracle.”
As of Oct. 12, the agency found only 7,178 deaths occurred among fully vaccinated people in the U.S. In a country that has reported more than 720,000 COVID-related deaths, the fully vaccinated make up less than 1%
“We were all hoping for something to help save our neighbors and our patients and certainly this data is tremendous,” said Dr. Joseph Teel, vice chair of clinical operations for the department of family medicine and community health at Penn Medicine. “It’s a modern miracle in many ways.”
I find this take a bit more sobering:
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths For 2021 Surpass Toll From 2020
The country reported 352,000 deaths since the start of 2021, 1,000 more than were reported in 2020.
www.forbes.com
More Americans have died from Covid-19 so far in 2021 than in 2020, a sobering milestone after the year began with hopes that the United States was set to turn the corner on the pandemic with the rollout of vaccines -- and the death count is still rising steadily at a pace of over 2,000 a day.
As of Wednesday, U.S. localities have reported 353,000 deaths since January 1, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
That surpasses the 352,000 deaths reported in 2020 in the 10 months following the first recorded domestic outbreaks of the disease in March.
Last week, the U.S. surpassed 700,000 Covid-19 deaths, more than any other country, and 25,000 more than were killed by the Spanish flu of 1918, making Covid-19 the deadliest pandemic in American history. But there are signs of a reprieve. The number of patients hospitalized with Covid-19 dropped to a seven-day average of 66,131 in the week to Oct. 3 from 76,734 in the week to Sept. 26, according to the Centers for Disease Control, while the share of Americans who have received at least one shot of a coronavirus vaccine has risen to 65%, driven partly by government and corporate vaccination mandates.
