Omicron meet Gibraltar, one of the world’s most vaccinated nations. Gibraltar has vaccinated ~99% of its total population. 🇬🇮

The nation has NOT recorded a SINGLE COVID-19 death since February 2021. Don’t tell me vaccines don’t work. Image
Source for information above:
ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-da…
NOTE: This graphic has now been UPDATED to reflect data AS OF January 31st, 2022.
For those asking, the ~99% vaccination rate applies to two doses only. Gibraltar is ~86% boosted per JHU CSSE COVID-19 Data. Source: github.com/CSSEGISandData…
How do death rates from COVID-19 differ between people who are vaccinated and those who are not? Highly recommend a read. ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths-b…
Thank you for those who are clarifying there have some deaths. It comes from JHU’s 7-Day Averages and has been pulled from the link in the thread. Deaths in Gibraltar have been impressively low nonetheless but I wanted to clear that up so there were no misconceptions. ☺️
Also, some are having an issue that I called Gibraltar a “nation.” Perhaps territory would have been a better term to use but the point still stands about vaccines.

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