Yet we see all the claims from the Covid-deniers that Covid-19 is little more than the flu... COVID-19 was the No. 1 killer of Americans age 35 to 54 last month, and No. 2 overall https://theweek.com/coronavirus/100...f-americans-aged-35-to-54-last-month-and-no-2 COVID-19 was the No. 1 leading cause of death in the U.S. in January, at the peak of last winter's brutal coronavirus surge, but then vaccines became widely available and it dropped to No. 7 by July, the Kaiser Family Foundation says in a new analysis of COVID-19 fatalities. Then the Delta variant hit and found ample unvaccinated Americans to kick COVID-19 back up to the No. 2 killer in August and September, the leading cause of death for Americans age 35 to 54, and even the sixth or seventh leading cause of death for children. n September, "COVID-19 took the lives of 1,899 people per day on average," KFF writes. "By comparison, heart disease, which is typically the No. 1 cause of death in the U.S. each year, leads to the death of about 2,000 Americans per day, and cancer claims about 1,600 American lives per day." Deaths are declining now, but "an average of over 1,600 people per day continued to die of COVID-19 in the first week of October," KFF said, "even as safe and effective vaccines have been free and widely available to adults in all states and D.C. since early May." KFF also calculated that about 90,000 Americans who died of COVID-19 from June through September would still be alive if they had gotten vaccinated, including 49,000 people in September alone. "The overwhelming majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths continue to be preventable," KFF says. As of Oct. 7, about 78 percent of U.S. adults 18 and older have gotten at least one vaccine dose, KFF says, and more than 50 million adults remain unvaccinated. "In the first months after the vaccine rollout, Black Americans were far less likely than white Americans to be vaccinated," The New York Times reports. "But a wave of pro-vaccine campaigns and a surge of virus hospitalizations and deaths this summer, mostly among the unvaccinated and caused by the highly contagious Delta variant, have narrowed the gap," erasing it in low-vaccination states like Alabama, North Carolina, and Mississippi. If Mississippi — where 1 of every 300 residents has died of COVID 19 — were a country, it would have the world's third-highest per capita death rate,Times reporter Mike Baker noted. He also estimates that nearly 500,000 fewer Americans would have died of COVID-19 if the U.S. had managed to keep its fatality rate on par with Canada.
90,000 US COVID-19 deaths could have been prevented by vaccines in 4 months, 2 leading US nonprofits estimate https://www.businessinsider.com/cov...-disease-kaiser-family-foundation-cdc-2021-10 About 90,000 COVID-19 deaths in the US between June and September were preventable, two US nonprofits say. In September, 49,000 deaths could have been avoided if more adults got a COVID-19 shot, they said. The Kaiser Family Foundation and the Peterson Center on Healthcare cited a tracker that uses CDC data. (More at above url)
Covid-19 was the #1 killer last year 2020 and it's so far the leading cause of death among law enforcement here in 2021. ---------- According to the nonprofit, from Jan. 1 to June 30, 71 officers died of Covid-related causes, more than firearm and traffic-related incidents combined. The number has continued climbing since the report was released, with 133 officers having died of Covid-19 to date this year, the nonprofit said. Last year, more law enforcement officers died of Covid-19 than any other cause, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. https://nleomf.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-Mid-Year-Fatality-Report_FINAL.pdf ---------- Sadly and dangerously, I've seen members like @smallfil almost bragging (as if it's proof) that vaccines are dangerous for police officers (law enforcement) when in fact that being not vaccinated is more dangerous to law enforcement. Trying to justify why the anti-vax are not vaccinated has been a deadly game to play. In fact, so far, it's been more dangerous for law enforcement in comparison to when they combat crime. wrbtrader
62 percent of police deaths last year were COVID-19-related: analysis https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-brie...police-deaths-last-year-were-covid-19-related
5 times as many police officers have died from COVID as from guns since pandemic began https://www.axios.com/5-times-as-ma...gan-afddf37d-d97a-4058-b731-6104754701a4.html
Sadly, Covid has been a bioweapon against law enforcement. It's understandable why the government is trying to prevent Covid from being a bioweapon against our military by mandating our military to be fully vaccinated. People underestimate how viruses can be used as a deadly weapon to weaken those you may want to attack in the near future. https://www.military.com/military-life/6-deadly-viruses-us-army-has-fought-1969.html wrbtrader