Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Washington Post says: Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated.

Covid is no longer mainly a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Here’s why. - The Washington Post


For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine.


Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation.

It’s a continuation of a troubling trend that has emerged over the past year


As vaccination rates have increased and new variants appeared, the share of deaths of people who were vaccinated has been steadily rising. In September 2021, vaccinated people made up just 23 percent of coronavirus fatalities. In January and February this year, it was up to 42 percent...

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