Vaccines are seen as one of the best ways to stop COVID-19. Learn more about the types of vaccines, including the newly approved Novavax.
www.webmd.com
I think that study is complete bunk. The AP does not know who is not vaccinated. They study states:
The AP analyzed figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.
They don't even explain how they guesstimated but it appears they assumed anyone where there was no record for being vaccinated was not. Clearly, though, they somehow magically mixed two databases that are not one-to-one corresponding - CDC data and state health department "breakthrough" data.
At the bottom of the study, there are errata. The AP made two huge errors they acknowledged, each off by about a factor of 10.
Fatal flaw is acknowledged in the fifth paragraph...
Only about 45 states report breakthrough infections, and some are more aggressive than others in looking for such cases. So the data probably understates such infections, CDC officials said.
Not every breakthrough infection is reported. AP assumed it is.
Report is here:
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the United States now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the vaccines have been and an indication that daily deaths — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the shots.
apnews.com
Rating: Fake News, but I like how they inserted a sad story. Very scientific of them to do so.