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Covid: majority of coronavirus deaths are now amongst the vaccinated

"We can no longer say that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated." This is the main conclusion of a WaPo report.

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Juan Carlos Téllez

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the majority of Americans dying from coronavirus are at least partially vaccinated, this is according to a new Washington Post analysis published Wednesday following the release of federal and state data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

According to an analysis by Cynthia Cox, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation, 58% of the coronavirus deaths in August were among the vaccinated or boosted. The WP speaks of a "troubling trend," as the proportion of deaths of people who are vaccinated has been "steadily rising" over the last year. In this regard, he believes that the declining efficacy of vaccines and the increasingly contagious coronavirus strains spreading among the elderly and immunocompromised have led to more deaths among those who have received at least one dose of the vaccine.

The newspaper reports that in September 2021, vaccinated persons accounted for only 23% of coronavirus deaths. In January and February of this year, it was up to 42 percent. In August, as many as 58% of coronavirus deaths were among the vaccinated and booster vaccinated persons.

We can no longer say that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Fauci calls for vaccines for all

Despite this data, the Washington Post considers that not being vaccinated remains an important risk factor related to death from covid-19. Remember that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stress the need for regular vaccinations to keep the risk of death from coronavirus low, especially for the elderly.

It is the same speech starring Anthony Fauci. In the last media appearance of the White House chief epidemiologist, he again called on citizens to get vaccinated against covid. Fauci noted that, with the vaccine, "there’s a 14 times lower risk of dying compared to unvaccinated and at least a 3 times lower risk of testing positive." Under this premise, Fauci pointed to those who do not vaccinate as victims of an ideological confrontation, ignoring recent data that questions the reliability of vaccines.

When I see people in this country, because of the divisiveness in our country, not getting vaccinated for reasons that have nothing to do with public health but have to do because of divisiveness and ideological differences, as a physician, it pains me because I don’t want to see anybody get infected, I don’t want to see anybody hospitalized, and I don’t want to see anybody die from covid.

The White House announced Tuesday the launch of a $475 million campaign to urge citizens to get the booster dose of covid. Health officials noted that new data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that the recently licensed variant-specific Omicron boosters work better against the new variants than the older vaccines.

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