Almost all COVID-19 deaths in US are now amongst unvaccinated
Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a astounding demonstration of how tremendous the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be virtually zero if everyone eligible received the vaccine. An Associated Press evaluation of available government data from May indicates that “breakthrough” infections in wholly vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%. And solely about a hundred and fifty of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in thoroughly vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or 5 deaths per day on average. The AP analyzed figures provided via the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing boundaries in the data. Among them: Only about forty five states report breakthrough infections,