Nice work but.........The United States population is 56.8% fully vaccinated, not 70%.
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New infections are 93% Delta variant, which first appeared in India in early 2021. Delta is more contagious and more deadly than the original virus. People infected withe the Delta variant can show 1000 times more viral load than people who where infected with the original strain. A more contagious and more deadly variant will inevitably kill more people in a given year vs. a year in which the variant did not exist.
How Dangerous Is the Delta Variant? Here’s What the Science Says
We spoke to UCSF virologist Nadia Roan, PhD, about the latest developments in our knowledge of the Delta variant, including how the new variant spreads so efficiently, whether it causes more serious illness, and why she thinks vaccines will hold the line.www.ucsf.edu
The vaccine does not appear to be as effective against the Delta strain as the original strain, but still does offer vastly better protection against infection, serious illness and death than remaining unvaccinated.
From the CDC, which gave us the "99% survival rate" that everyone seems to take as gospel:
"One study tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states from April through mid-July. As delta surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."
LINK: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-...ccinated-11-times-more-likely-to-die-of-covid
I would hazard a guess that the initial current increase in deaths that we see with a largely reopened society and a much more contagious and deadly variant of the virus is not that surprising, considering the response to the pandemic in 2020, including the closure of non-essential businesses and restrictions on large gatherings, combined with a less contagious original strain of the virus.
The vaccination rate in 2021 did not jump from 0 to 56% on January 1, so you can't assign a vaccination rate for the entire year and then compare it to 2020. The vaccine rollout was gradual and is ongoing. And 56% fully vaccinated still leaves a lot of room for drastic increases in deaths, which are mostly amongst the unvaccinated.
Apologies for my sources, if they don't match the reliablity of a cat turd on Twitter.
Now we're told to get it because it lowers your chance of needing hospitalization or death, and that's starting to look like another lie. Those who continue to believe the reason du jour, after finding all the others were lies, appear rather foololish.
