Nearly a quarter million preventable deaths in the U.S. from Covid.... if they only had gotten vaccinated. Obviously nearly all of them are MAGA supporters. More than 230,000 U.S. COVID deaths were preventable, analysis finds https://www.axios.com/preventable-covid-deaths-51518033-3c71-427c-b67d-a4d7c537d14f.html Roughly 234,000 COVID deaths since last June could have been prevented with a primary series vaccination, according to a newly updated Kaiser Family Foundation analysis. Why it matters: The deaths account for 60% of total adult COVID deaths since June and a quarter of the nearly 1 million fatalities since the pandemic began. The big picture: The researchers say COVID-19 vaccines remain highly effective in preventing hospitalization and death — even in the face of new, highly contagious variants like Omicron. CDC estimates that in February and March, unvaccinated people were 10 times more likely to die from COVID-19 than people were vaccinated with at least the primary series. The analysis didn't attempt to estimate the potential effect of booster protection. Researchers used Kaiser tracking data for COVID deaths and a CDC dataset from 25 jurisdictions that shows the share of adult deaths that are among unvaccinated and vaccinated people.
It still is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Unfortunately the choices of the unvaccinated impact all of us -- because this is how diseases work. The study outlined in this article gives more details. The Unvaxxed Increase Risk of Vaccinated People Catching COVID-19, Says Canadian Study https://www.complex.com/life/unvaccinated-people-spreading-covid-to-vaccinated A new study suggests that unvaccinated people aren’t just putting themselves at risk, but are also threatening the safety of those who are vaccinated against COVID-19. The study, which was published on April 25, called on infectious disease modeling based off the province of Ontario to replicate interactions among vaxxed and un-vaxxed people in a mostly vaccinated population. The findings suggest that attack rates in vaccinated people were higher when they were mixed in with un-vaxxed people. “We’ve really tended to forget that we’re in a pandemic of a communicable disease, which means that our actions affect those around us,” Dr. David Fisman, study coauthor and epidemiology professor at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health said to Global News. Attack rates were also much lower among vaccinated people who didn’t interact with the unvaccinated. The research stated “Humans do not mix randomly. (They) exhibit a tendency to interact preferentially with others like themselves, a phenomenon referred to as ‘assortativity.’” This correlates to another recent study that suggests 40 percent of Canadians have minimized or cut off contact with friends and family who disagree with them about the pandemic and vaccines. Unvaccinated people were least susceptible to attacks when they were mixed in with a vaccinated population. The study’s findings were consistent even when looking at modelling for lower vaccine effectiveness, such as the introduction of a new variant or looking at people who haven’t received a booster. “The decision to get vaccinated can’t be framed as just a matter of personal choice because it has implications for the safety of other people in the community,” said Fisman. Read the whole study conducted by the Canadian Medical Association Journal here.
Congrats to the unvaccinated on hitting this milestone. We couldn't have done without them. Covid’s toll in the U.S. reaches a once unfathomable number: 1 million deaths https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/04/covid-deaths-top-1-million-in-us-nbc-news-tally-shows.html
It's an amazing milestone. In fact, we still have a handful of Covidiots proudly running around here at Elitetrader.com in complete denial that most of the Covid Deaths are those not vaccinated. Hopefully these Covidiots didn't kill off any of their family members or hospitalized anyone via the misinformation/disinformation bullshit by these Covidiots. ---------- Most of those deaths — more than 80 percent between April and December 2021, for instance — were unvaccinated Americans, according to the CDC. As of February, the risk of death from Covid was 20 times higher for unvaccinated people than for those who were vaccinated and boosted, the CDC data showed. ---------- I'm just glad my family and relatives weren't touched by Covid. wrbtrader
And we should remember to thank the willfully unvaccinated for the achievement of 15 million deaths worldwide. WHO: Nearly 15M deaths associated with COVID-19 https://www.wral.com/who-nearly-15m-deaths-associated-with-covid-19/20266601/ The World Health Organization is estimating that nearly 15 million people were killed either by the coronavirus or by its impact on overwhelmed health systems in the past two years, more than double the official death toll of 6 million. Most of the fatalities were in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Americas. In a report released on Thursday, the U.N. agency’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the figure as “sobering,” saying it should prompt countries to invest more in their capacities to quell future health emergencies. Scientists tasked by WHO with calculating the actual number of COVID-19 deaths between January 2020 and the end of last year estimated there were between 13.3 million and 16.6 million deaths that were either caused directly by the coronavirus or were somehow attributed to the pandemic’s impact on health systems, like people with cancer unable to seek treatment when hospitals were full of COVID patients. The figures are based on country-reported data and statistical modelling. WHO did not immediately break down the figures to distinguish between direct deaths from COVID-19 and others caused by the pandemic. “This may seem like just a bean-counting exercise, but having these WHO numbers is so critical to understanding how we should combat future pandemics and continue to respond to this one,” said Albert Ko, an infectious diseases specialist at the Yale School of Public Health who was not linked to the WHO research. For example, Ko said, South Korea’s decision to invest heavily in public health after it suffered a severe outbreak of MERS allowed it to escape COVID-19 with a per-capita death rate around a 20th of that of the U.S. Accurate numbers on COVID-19 deaths have been problematic throughout the pandemic, as the figures are only a fraction of the devastation wrought by the virus, largely because of limited testing and differences in how countries count COVID-19 deaths. According to government figures reported to WHO and to a separate count kept by Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 6 million reported coronavirus deaths to date. Scientists at the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington guessed there were more than 18 million COVID deaths from January 2020 to December 2021 in a recent study published in the journal Lancet, and a team led by Canadian researchers estimated there were more than 3 million uncounted coronavirus deaths in India alone. Some countries, including India, have disputed WHO's methodology for calculating COVID deaths, resisting the idea that there were many more deaths than officially counted. Earlier this week, the Indian government released new figures showing there were 474,806 more deaths in 2020 compared to the previous year, but did not say how many were tied to the pandemic. India did not release any death estimates for 2021, when the highly infectious delta variant swept through the country, killing many thousands. Yale’s Ko said better figures from WHO might also explain some lingering mysteries about the pandemic, like why Africa appears to have been one of the least affected by the virus, despite its low vaccination rates. “Were the mortality rates so low because we couldn’t count the deaths or was there some other factor to explain that?” he said, adding that the crush of deaths in rich countries like Britain and the U.S. proved that resources alone were insufficient to contain a global outbreak. Dr. Bharat Pankhania, a public health specialist at Britain’s University of Exeter, said we may never get close to the true toll of COVID-19, particularly in poor countries. “When you have a massive outbreak where people are dying in the streets because of a lack of oxygen, bodies were abandoned or people had to be cremated quickly because of cultural beliefs, we end up never knowing just how many people died,” he explained. Although Pankhania said the currently estimated COVID-19 death toll still pales in comparison to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic — when experts estimate up to 100 million people died — he said the fact that so many people died despite the advances of modern medicine, including vaccines, is shameful. He also warned the cost of COVID-19 could be far more damaging in the long term, given the increasing burden of long COVID. “With the Spanish flu, there was the flu and then there were some (lung) illnesses people suffered, but that was it,” he said. “There was not an enduring immunological condition that we’re seeing right now with COVID,” he said. “We do not know the extent to which people with long COVID will have their lives cut short and if they will have repeated infections that will cause them even more problems.”
Your post is misinformation missing context. The context being dying from Covid and with Covid are two entirely different things. We also know that tens, probably hundreds of thousands of Covid deaths were preventable had not Governers placed those sick with Covid into Nursing Homes with the elderly. We also know, given the heavily politicized nature of this event, that the numbers are suspect and more than likely inflated. Add it all up, we ain't at a million, not even close. Now back to our regularly scheduled problem of bullshit, lies and misinformation brought to you by the Ministry of Truth. You're all gonna die. REEEEEEEEEEE
Still a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Obesity may weaken vaccine protection; unvaccinated Omicron patients face risk from variants https://www.reuters.com/business/he...inated-omicron-patients-face-risk-2022-05-06/
'New Covid study shows importance of vaccination to the wider community' The Mirror's resident doctor, Dr Miriam Stoppard, looks at groundbreaking research from America showing how effective the Covid jab is at preventing infection on a countrywide scale https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/new-covid-study-shows-importance-27218951 Still, there are people who question if the Covid vaccination is worthwhile. But more evidence is coming to light, this time from a study in the US, showing indisputably that it saves lives not just at the individual level, but also within wider communities. Dr Amitabh Suthar and colleagues from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included 80% of US counties across 48 states, including 300 million people, in their BMJ report. Their conclusions are powerful: fewer people die in communities that are better vaccinated, and scaling up of vaccination within communities pays huge dividends. You may say, didn’t we know this already? Well, yes, but mainly from clinical trials. Numbers change once a drug, any drug, is used by the general public – and they are usually lower. So the ultimate test is when a drug is freely available and used in real life. The first Covid-19 vaccines were authorised on the basis of safety and efficacy established in clinical trials, and conferred a remarkably high protection rate – more than 90%. But the question with any new vaccine is: can it prevent infection on a countrywide scale when tested outside a controlled environment? This study says it can, and it did, across the US from coast to coast. Dr Suthar’s evaluation is based on more than 30 million cases of Covid-19 and more than 400,000 deaths linked to the illness, reported during the second year of the pandemic, between December 2020 and December 2021. When the Alpha variant of Covid was prevalent in 2021, the mortality rate was reduced by 60%, 75%, and 81% in US counties with low, medium, and high vaccination rates, compared with those that had very low coverage. The reductions in infection rates were 57%, 70%, and 80% in those counties when the Delta variant was dominant in the US and the impact on the number of people dying was similar. So, counties with higher vaccination rates had fewer Covid-19 cases and deaths per head of population. Even more startling, vaccination had a disproportionately large effect even in those counties with low and medium coverage. For small increases in vaccination coverage of only 20% and 50%, mortality fell by 60% and 75% respectively. A likely explanation for this disproportionately beneficial effect in counties with low and medium coverage is that vaccination programmes first targeted older people who are at greatest risk of severe illness and death from Covid. Even with relatively low vaccination coverage, the percentage of older vaccinated people is going to be higher than the wider population.
Yep -- even with Omicron BA.2, BA4. & BA.5 -- it's still a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Unvaccinated Americans up to 9 times more likely to die from COVID-19: https://nypost.com/2022/07/15/covid-19-deaths-up-to-8-times-more-likely-among-unvaccinated/ As the new COVID-19 BA. 5 variant is leading to a surge in cases across the country, the bulk of the suffering is falling on the unvaccinated, who are much more likely to get sick and die, data shows. People ages 12 and older in the US who weren’t vaccinated had a nine-time greater “risk of dying” in May when compared to those who had at least one primary series of vaccines by Modern, Pfizer-BioNTech and Johnson & Johnson, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data. “People who were unvaccinated had a greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and a greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than people who were vaccinated overall,” the CDC website reads. Of those who received the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and a booster dose, just 0.23 per 100,000 cases led to a fatality between September and May, compared to 1.60 among the unvaccinated. The correlating figures for those who received the primary series and booster shots from Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna were similar, at 0.21 and 0.15, respectively. In April, 0.13 deaths were reported per 100,000 cases compared to 0.65 for those who had not been inoculated, CDC data shows. Unvaccinated Americans ages 5 and up, meanwhile, were nearly twice as likely to test positive for the virus and had a six-times greater chance of dying in May compared to those who sought treatment. Their risk of testing positive grew to 2.3 times that of vaccinated people with a booster dose in June, data shows. Some 634 new deaths were reported Wednesday, roughly double the 7-day average of 351, but far lower than surges that recorded 2,700 in February and 3,300 in January 2021. The data comes as health officials in Los Angeles County – the nation’s most populous, with 10 million residents – will reinstate a broad indoor mask mandate on July 29 if current hospital admissions continue. Among vaccinated Americans, 0.13 deaths were reported per 100,000 cases on April 24, compared to 0.65 for those who had not been inoculated, CDC data shows. “We are not closing anything down,” Los Angeles County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer told reporters Thursday. “We are not asking people not to gather with the people they love. We’re asking you to take a sensible step, when there’s this much transmission with a highly transmissible variant, to go ahead and put back on a well-fitting high-filtration mask when you’re indoors around others.” Some 67% of the US population is fully vaccinated, while 78% have received at least one dose. The figure rises dramatically to 91.7% among seniors ages 65 and up, CDC data shows.