Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows @fenitn @dtkeating washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04…
A key explanation is that covid-19 fatalities are again concentrated among the elderly. Nearly two-thirds of the people who died during the omicron surge were 75 and older, according to a Post analysis.
Another is boosters. The bulk of vaccinated deaths are among people who did not get a booster shot, according to state data provided to The Post. In two of the states, California and Mississippi, 3/4 of the vaccinated senior citizens who died in Ja and Feb did not have boosters.
Even though the death rates for the vaccinated elderly and immunocompromised are low, their losses numbered in the thousands when cases exploded, leaving behind blindsided families.
But experts say the rising number of vaccinated people dying should not cause panic in those who got shots, the vast majority of whom will survive infections.
Don't rely on my thread, read/see/listen to the excellent work of @FenitN @dtkeating, which explains the data and shows how the toll of covid-19 has left families blindsided and bereaved washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04…
I will leave with this: “It’s still absolutely more dangerous to be unvaccinated than vaccinated,” said Andrew Noymer, a public health professor at the University of California at Irvine who studies covid-19 mortality.
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