Utter bullshit. This is why vaccine uptake for 6 Mo-5 years is like nothing. People are realizing this is bullshit. Thank god. unfortunately it might not have been soon enough.
The anti-vaxxers are trying to make sure that many more die of easily preventable diseases or face severe illness. All of this driven by the anti-science MAGA crowd. A wave of anti-vaccine legislation is sweeping the United States The anti-vaccine movement is gaining strength even after 1 million Americans have died of Covid-19. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-poli...vid-19-anti-vaccine-legislation?ICID=ref_fark
Let's see the vast number of lives saved and reduced medical costs among seniors in the U.S. thanks to the Covid vaccine. 300,000 COVID deaths among seniors avoided because of vaccines, report finds The report also found 650,000 fewer hospitalizations among seniors. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/30000...oided-vaccines-report-finds/story?id=91174190 There were 300,000 fewer COVID deaths and 650,000 fewer hospitalizations among seniors because of vaccines, according to a new report from the government Friday. That's a decrease of hospitalization and death by about 39–47%, according to the report, and it saved the healthcare system around $16 billion. The report studied seniors on Medicare insurance through the end of 2021. Those over 65 accounted for a vast majority of the COVID deaths in the country since the pandemic began, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Promoting the new findings, administration officials described the data as reason to get vaccinated with the new booster shots ahead of a possible winter surge. "We hope that with this report, we can continue to encourage Americans to get updated with their vaccinations and get us prepared for the fall and winter that's coming," Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said on a call with reporters. But that's easier said than done, of course. Vaccine uptake across the U.S. has been an uphill battle since the onset of the pandemic, and has only grown more challenging with each recommendation for booster shots. So far, the administration said it expects about 13-15 million Americans to have gotten the newest booster by the end of this week, or about 6% of the eligible population. The vaccine has been available since the beginning of September. White House COVID Coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha acknowledged that the pace of vaccines needs to increase in October. He urged everyone to get a shot, particularly elderly people, who are still the most hard hit by the virus. "We're still losing 350 or more people a day to COVID-19 and this impact is not equally distributed. We know that 70% of deaths occurring today are in people over 75. This is unacceptable. Particularly because we can now prevent almost every COVID deaths in the country with vaccines and treatments that we have," Jha said. "But the good news is we are not helpless against this virus," he added. "And so our message is very simple. Don't wait. Get vaccinated. Go get vaccinated now. Get it before Halloween. So you are ready before Thanksgiving and Christmas and the holidays." Asked what the administration is going to do to drive up the vaccination rate, Jha said that part of the problem is funding. "We are running the best campaign we can and we think a quite an effective campaign. But no doubt about it, it has been substantially hampered by the lack of funding from Congress," Jha said. He also said he hoped more people would get shots as the weather cools down and people head in for their flu shots.
COVID Vaccine Mandates At Colleges And Universities Saved Thousands Of Lives: Study https://knewz.com/covid-vaccine-mandates-colleges/ Big vaccine on campus. That, in a nutshell, is the finding of a speculative study by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The organization crunched an immense amount of fall 2021 semester data to calculate the impact of COVID vaccine mandates on surrounding communities. “We calculate that four-year college vaccine mandates during the 13 weeks we consider avoided approximately 7,300 deaths, which is about 5 percent of total deaths from Covid-19 during this period,” the researchers wrote. “Given that in 2021, 69 percent of Covid-19 deaths were for people over age 65, we approximate that the value of lives saved from college vaccine mandates is between $19.8 to $31.8 million total for the average-sized county in our sample.” Indeed, counties were the key window of measurement for the study. A so-called “mandate county” was one with at least one four-year college with a vaccine mandate. Non-mandate counties were ones that had at least one such institution but no mandate. The baseline vaccination rate was tied to Aug. 1. In all, heading into the fall 2021 semester, 668 colleges and universities across the country had a COVID vaccine mandate. The main concentration of mandated campus institutions was California and the Northeast. On a more micro level, the study estimates that across the first 13 weeks of the fall 2021 semester, college vaccine mandates reduced new Covid-19 cases by 339 per 100,000 county residents and new deaths by 5.4 per 100,000 residents. The researchers also make the argument that this is a more accurate way to measure geographical vaccine impact than hospital-based studies, because the number of ICU patients, hospitalizations and deaths are based on the hospital location rather than patients’ counties of residence. “Our findings indicate that college vaccine mandates led to substantial reductions in disease burden well beyond college campuses themselves,” the researchers conclude. “This study shows that vaccine mandates, even in a young population, can be an effective tool towards reducing disease burden.”
"Still, each week, the virus is killing hundreds of Californians, hitting hardest among the unvaccinated." Covid Still Kills, but the Demographics of Its Victims Are Shifting As California settles into a third year of pandemic, covid-19 continues to pose a serious threat of death. But the number of people dying — and the demographics of those falling victim — has shifted notably from the first two years. https://goodmenproject.com/featured...the-demographics-of-its-victims-are-shifting/
This is a reminder that Covid vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths. And the majority of the deaths are among the unvaccinated. It is still a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated. Coronavirus tally: Almost 90% decline in COVID deaths vs. Feb is 'cause for optimism' but new variants require vigilance, says WHO head https://www.marketwatch.com/story/c...ts-require-vigilance-says-who-head-2022-11-10
The vaccinated live longer... Study shows that COVID-19 vaccination helped to reduce the years of life lost among the fully vaccinated by nearly 88% https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-11-covid-vaccination-years-life-lost.html Years of life lost (YLL) by males, females, population with or without completed vaccination, and... When evaluating vaccine efficacy, the conventional measures include a reduction of risk of hospitalization and death. The number of patients dying with or without vaccination is often in the public spotlight. However, when evaluating public health interventions or the burden of disease, it is more illustrative to use mortality metrics that also take into account the prematurity of the deaths, such as years of life lost (YLL) or years of life saved (YLS) due to the vaccination. Researchers from the Faculty of Science at Charles University used this approach to evaluate the difference in YLL and YLS between COVID-19 victims with or without completed vaccination in the autumn pandemic wave during 2021 (October-December) in Czechia. For the analysis, individual data about all COVID-19 deaths in the country was used. While 40.6% of the deaths were in cohorts with completed vaccination, this corresponds to 35.1% of years of life lost. The role of vaccination is expressed using YLS and hypothetical numbers of deaths. The registered number of deaths is approximately 3.5 times lower than would be expected without vaccination. The results illustrate that vaccination is more effective in saving lives than suggested by simplistic comparisons. The COVID-19 pandemic emphasized the need for an interdisciplinary approach. The role of demography is irreplaceable in the case of evaluation of its consequences for the population and the effectiveness of applied measures above all. The study has proposed a method usable in this evaluation and contributes to the topic of vaccine effectiveness using demographic and mathematical methods. Metrics such as YLL should be considered when evaluating the impacts of various population-wide interventions. Assessing years of life lost is a good indicator of the effects of a pandemic, as it provides a much more relevant view than the crude mortality rate (numbers of deaths per population size) often used in practice. In this study, the measure of YLL was used not only for illustration of the outcome of the pandemics but above all for the evaluation of the effect of completed vaccination. It provides clear evidence of the benefits of COVID-19 vaccination, and using the YLS illustrates the advantage of a population with complete vaccination as compared to a population without it. The result illustrates that vaccination is even more effective in saving lives than suggested by straightforward and often simplified comparisons. "Moreover, in the case of Czechia, among the population with completed vaccination, almost 15,000 COVID-19-related deaths were potentially avoided. Vaccination helped to reduce the YLL among the fully vaccinated by around 88% during the studied period, and the registered number of deaths is approximately 3.5 times lower than would be expected without vaccination," concluded researchers Dr. Hulíková Tesárková and Dr. Dzúrová. The full study is available in Scientific Reports, and it demonstrates that COVID-19 vaccination saves lives and saves years of potential future lives.
Covid booster shot once per year to deal with the new sub-variants, FLU vaccine shots, and wear your face mask to minimize the risk of RSV to yourself or transmission to your child. Base Rate Fallacy Learn about Base Rate Fallacy to understand why the unvaccinated percentage > vaccinated percentage of each group in Covid hospitalization and Covid deaths. Without that knowledge, you're either intentionally being a Covidiot or just ignorant for political reasons because you want to look only at the raw numbers without the Base Rate Fallacy to say Vaccinated Covid Deaths > Unvaccinated Covid Deaths. See Charts I posted earlier (about a month ago) to see the Unvaccinated Covid Deaths are declining fast down to the low numbers for Vaccinated Covid Deaths...recent chart was early November 2022 in this thread of another thread. At this point in the Pandemic and traversing to an Endemic...many are getting back to normal including myself and traveling. The Covidiots are on their own because there are enough vaccinated people around the unvaccinated for a protective barrier to keep the overall Covid numbers (infections, hospitalization and deaths) low. Regardless, most of the vaccinate covid deaths have been +65 years or older with co-morbidity while unvaccinated covid deaths have been +40 years or older with co-morbidity. Simply, know your risk group and see your doctor instead of being a Covidiot. With that said, I'm back in the North Suburbs of Chicago area and have visited a few malls (e.g. The Glen Town Center). I am shocked at how many people are not wearing face masks while indoors with a surging RSV and surging FLU sending too many kids to the hospital...there's no vaccine for RSV and people are not getting their FLU vaccine. Protect yourself and you'll be protecting your family. Enjoy the holidays...I am and it's good to be back in Evanston, Illinois for the holidays after missing the two past holidays because of border closures. P.S. FIFA World Cup soccer 2022 is happening with +95% of the athletes being fully vaccinated. Please don't blame Covid vaccines for your team's missed penalty kicks or poor performance. wrbtrader