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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, per our colleagues
Fenit Nirappil and
Dan Keating.
“We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Cox told The Health 202.
Being unvaccinated is still a major risk factor for dying from covid-19. But efficacy wanes over time, and
an analysis out last week from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention highlights the need to get regular booster shots to keep one’s risk of death from the coronavirus low, especially for the elderly.
That was the quote from the article.
Now we had a huge BA4/BA5 spike in June/ July of this year so that doesn't really surprise me as BA4/ BA5 went past the immunity of the vaccines.
But we know the vaccine still is supposed to prevent against death.
My best educated guess would be the 58% is due to a combination of factors..
1. BA4/ BA5 were just breaking through our immunity and people got infected a lot more easily.
2. Original vaccine/ booster over the winter in 2021 had waned by july 2022.
That would also jibe with their 42% vaccinated deaths data during the original omicron spike in January as a lot of people didn't get boosted and the immunity had just waned.
So stay boosted and don't let your immunity wane!
And for fucks sakes stay away from conspiracy theories - you know there will be a lot with this data and people are gonna gaslight the truth.