"But some have died shortly after taking the vaccine!"
True. Pre-COVID, ~7,800 Americans died from something or another each day (it was ~9,200/day in 2020 due to COVID).
Guess what? Some of those 7,800 who die of OTHER CAUSES happened to take the vaccine shortly beforehand.
Seeing how most of those getting vaccinated from December - April were seniors in their 70's, 80's or 90's to begin with, it's not exactly a shocker that (gasp) some of them happened to die from other typical causes shortly after they happened to take the vaccine.
Hmmm...re-reading the first tweet above, I should clarify that almost NONE of the ~600,000 Americans who've died of COVID-19 were fully vaccinated at the time.
As of 5/10/21, the CDC reports only 223 *vaccinated* Americans have died of COVID.
(sigh) OK, a HANDFUL (as in literally a handful) out of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE *might* have died due to an *extremely* rare blood clot reaction/etc. to *some* versions of the vaccine.
So, technically not "0". More like "a couple dozen globally".
UPDATE: Thanks to @microtwinge, @ErinOfAlaska and @lindoyle2 for your assistance. I've updated the graphs accordingly (and the R^2 factor increased slightly to 0.2197 as a result).
UPDATE: Not related (beyond the fact that abortion/ reproductive healthcare is always connected to the ACA on some level), but there's already another major SCOTUS news development this morning:
Welp. I figured as much but the visual is pretty striking regardless...
RE NEW HAMPSHIRE: Something’s clearly not right with NH...several folks from there have stated that their data is messed up; they're doing very well but not THAT great.
I mean I find it difficult to believe that they jumped this much in the past day or two...
I'm less concerned by the fact that 44% of Republicans say they refuse to #GetVaccinated than I am by the *consistency* of that percent over time. If it was gradually dropping that would be more encouraging, but it's almost a straight line since December.
I know this isn’t an exact overlap, but if you assume all 44% are those who voted for Trump last year, that’s around 33 million people or 10% of the total U.S. population.
Add the ~50M 11 & younger kids who can’t get vaccinated, the ~10M immunocompromised who can’t, the 4% of Dems & ? Indys who won’t and that’s probably around 30%. Yikes.
Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *cases* per capita: 1. Chattahoochee County, GA 2. Crowley County, CO 3. Bent County, CO 4. Dewey County, SD 5. Lincoln County, AR 6. Lake County, TN 7. Norton County, KS 8. Bon Homme County, SD 9. Trousdale County, TN 10. Buffalo County, SD
Counties w/highest cumul. #COVID19 *deaths* per capita: 1. Foard County, TX 2. Galax, VA 3. Jerauld County, SD 4. Emporia, VA 5. Hancock County, GA 6. Gove County, KS 7. Gregory County, SD 8. Iron County, WI 9. Dickey County, ND 10. McMullen County, TX