Current Events > Nearly all COVID deaths in US are now among unvaccinated

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https://news.yahoo.com/nearly-covid-deaths-us-now-154100375.html

Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who werent vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day now down to under 300 could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine. An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that breakthrough infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. Thats about 0.1%. And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average. Ross Bagne, a 68-year-old small-business owner in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was eligible for the vaccine in early February but didn't get it. He died June 4, infected and unvaccinated, after spending more than three weeks in the hospital, his lungs filling with fluid. He was unable to swallow because of a stroke. He never went out, so he didnt think he would catch it, said his grieving sister, Karen McKnight. She wondered: Why take the risk of not getting vaccinated?

The preventable deaths will continue, experts predict, with unvaccinated pockets of the nation experiencing outbreaks in the fall and winter. Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said modeling suggests the nation will hit 1,000 deaths per day again next year. In Arkansas, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, with only about 33% of the population fully protected, cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising. It is sad to see someone go to the hospital or die when it can be prevented," Gov. Asa Hutchinson tweeted as he urged people to get their shots. In Seattle's King County, the public health department found only three deaths during a recent 60-day period in people who were fully vaccinated. The rest, some 95% of 62 deaths, had had no vaccine or just one shot. Those are all somebodys parents, grandparents, siblings and friends, said Dr. Mark Del Beccaro, who helps lead a vaccination outreach program in King County. Its still a lot of deaths, and theyre preventable deaths. In the St. Louis area, more than 90% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have not been vaccinated, said Dr. Alex Garza, a hospital administrator who directs a metropolitan-area task force on the outbreak. The majority of them express some regret for not being vaccinated, Garza said. Thats a pretty common refrain that were hearing from patients with COVID.

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Respect to those who have died but:



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ah well

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wackyteen posted...

Respect to those who have died but:

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wackyteen posted...

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I dont think I am capable of feeling sympathy for those who dont get vaccinated anymore.

Youn need a good fucking excuse or I am ready to mock your dead ass.

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Covid is a government plot to take out the unvaccinated!

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It is what it is.

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wackyteen posted...

Respect to those who have died but:

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pikachupwnage posted...

I am ready to mock your dead ass.

we're all ready. constantly seeing 300 cases per day in my state. they chose freedom from the shot so they get to pay the price.
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@Doom_Art posted...

ah well

I wonder if you say "ah well" to communities of color being disproportionately affected do to vaccine hesitancy.

dont mean to be a dick but yeah, this isnt that surprising...

GeraldDarko posted...

I wonder if you say "ah well" to communities of color being disproportionately affected do to vaccine hesitancy.

it's absolutely bizarre to see conservatives and antivaxxers use this and think it's some sort of amazing "gotcha"

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Doom_Art posted...

it's absolutely bizarre to see conservatives and antivaxxers use this and think it's some sort of amazing "gotcha"

I'm not conservative. I think vaccines should be mandatory. I simply don't pet politics influence my empathy. It's something I've seen you do a fair number of times. Why dismiss a person's suffering because of their politics. The majror factors are the same, poor education and misinformation. Though communities of color have the added hesitancy due to mistreatment from the government.

wait, theres a vaccine?

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I hope covid takes me out.

GeraldDarko posted...

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I wonder if you say "ah well" to communities of color being disproportionately affected do to vaccine hesitancy.

After years of abuse and experimented on I don't blame them.

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LastTomorrow posted...

After years of abuse and experimented on I don't blame them.

I get that but, I don't see that as making them deserving of empathy, while conservatives aren't.

LastTomorrow posted...

After years of abuse and experimented on I don't blame them.

I do. The logistics of these vaccines makes any special treatment impossible. I have no sympathy for those who refuse to get it.

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GeraldDarko posted...

I'm not conservative. I think vaccines should be mandatory. I simply don't pet politics influence my empathy. It's something I've seen you do a fair number of times. Why dismiss a person's suffering because of their politics. The majror factors are the same, poor education and misinformation. Though communities of color have the added hesitancy due to mistreatment from the government.

What do politics have to do with a person getting vaccinated? If someone is refusing to get vaccinated because their politicians said so and they get Covid then shocked Pikachu

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WE are still losting 3 9/11s worth of a people each month over this thing. And because of Republicans people think it is joke.


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I think they call this Darwinism.
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If you're to stupid to get the vaccine you deserve your death.

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Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

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...and?
That's the point of vaccines.

Same as it has been since the beginning, there are still vulnerable people being taken down by anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 deniers, so I can't gloat about this. If it were ever just a matter of those cretins getting what they deserve without harming anyone else, this all would have been so much easier.

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Evidence of a racial component to vaccine hesitancy isn't that strong; partisanship is a clearer factor

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Questionmarktarius posted...

...and?
That's the point of vaccines.

At this point, I think it's pretty safe to say that a lot of people don't know that.

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People around here are so deranged. I got the vaccine in February and I certainly think people should get it but taking so much joy in the death of people, dumb people though they may be, is really gross.

I mean

duh lol

at Some point this becomes a culling of stupidity.

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Conflict posted...

there are people that can't get it for health reasons.

they'll have to take extra precautions as a result since the anti-vaxxers don't seem to care for them.
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Conflict posted...

Um... there are people that can't get it for health reasons. Not every unvaccinated person is an idiot anti-vaxxer

Its a pretty tiny number that literally cant get it, and a huge chunk are immune disorders who MIGHT be able to get it but under current testing protocols we cant know what would happen. Then there are the ones who the odds of them dying from getting it is so high even the vaccine isnt worth it and theyre stuck in a bubble virtually forever. Almost everyone unvaccinated is doing it by choice

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The US still had 18k deaths in May?

Jesus Christ
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Bio1590 posted...

The US still had 18k deaths in May?

yes. india was supposed to catch up or is in the process of.
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And nothing of value was lost.

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Republicans killing their own party

kingdrake2 posted...

yes. india was supposed to catch up or is in the process of.

India still isn't even close in number of deaths *officially* but I suspect a large part of that is poor record keeping or people never being tested, even upon death.

There's no way they're still like 120k deaths behind Brazil on 12,000,000 more cases.
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GeraldDarko posted...

I'm not conservative. I think vaccines should be mandatory. I simply don't pet politics influence my empathy. It's something I've seen you do a fair number of times. Why dismiss a person's suffering because of their politics. The majror factors are the same, poor education and misinformation. Though communities of color have the added hesitancy due to mistreatment from the government.

You're talking about someone who made a whole ass topic about how funny rising fuel costs are because conservatives were using it to rail Biden.

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wear mask, stand 6 feet and wash hands

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