Unvaccinated Have 11 Times Greater Chance of Dying From Covid Than Vaccinated

The latest CDC data confirm that Covid vaccination is the best means of reducing the threat posed by the virus and that the unvaccinated are at far greater risk those those who are vaccinated. 

The challenge, from a public policy and social science standpoint, is first, that the act of vaccination has become politicized in the US and second, that wealthy western countries, fearful of their citizens' anger at ongoing lockdowns, are hesitant to ship too many vaccine doses to developing countries, though it would help stop the spread, because the developed countries dont want to be caught short. Since many of the unvaccinated adult population appears to accept the risk, the answer may be in incremental advances with the vaccine hesitant rather than the vaccine resistant, and with the vaccination of younger children. JL

Emily Shapiro and colleagues report in ABC:

The CDC updated its website with data that shows vaccines still dramatically reduce the risk of testing positive or dying from COVID-19, even amid the latest delta surge. Unvaccinated people had an over-six times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and over 11 times greater risk of dying from the virus, compared to the vaccinated. In every age group, the death rate was higher for COVID-19 among unvaccinated populations. Americans 80 and older had the highest rate of deaths among fully vaccinated people per capita, though their risk of death was about 5.7 times lower than their unvaccinated counterparts in the same age group.

The United States has been facing a COVID-19 surge as the more contagious delta variant continues to spread.

More than 722,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 while over 4.8 million people have died from the disease worldwide, according to real-time data compiled by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.

Just 66.5% of Americans ages 12 and up are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, according to data from the CDC.

The CDC updated its website with data previously released last month that shows vaccines still dramatically reduce the risk of testing positive or dying from COVID-19, even amid the latest delta surge.

In August, unvaccinated people had an over-six times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19 and over 11 times greater risk of dying from the virus, compared to the vaccinated, according to federal data pulled from 16 states and jurisdictions.

In every age group, the death rate was higher for COVID-19 among unvaccinated populations. Americans 80 and older had the highest rate of deaths among fully vaccinated people per capita, though their risk of death was about 5.7 times lower than their unvaccinated counterparts in the same age group.