Covid deaths no longer overwhelmingly among unvaccinated as toll on elderly grows

I tell anti-vaxxers I know that everyone will get the COVID at some point because low vaccination rates have let it get out of control. You just want to make sure you're fully vaccinated for when you do get it, to help keep you from dying.

Too many are hearing / seeing the insidious “vaccines don’t protect from infection” so are basically giving up and assuming everyone will get it so why risk the boosters? Hell, far too many didn’t even follow through with the second shot of mRNA to get fully vaxxed. I really long for the days when we respected experts and realized our own ignorance about many things. Knowing how to assess risk and having sufficient reading comprehension to actually understand things written at or above 11th grade level seems way out of the question now.

The title is misleading and does not correlate with its main finding:

"As a group, the unvaccinated remain far more vulnerable to the worst consequences of infection — and are far more likely to die — than people who are vaccinated, and they are especially more at risk than people who have received a booster shot."

Two comments:

1. This newspaper article may have a base rate fallacy. They should have presented per capita death rates.

2. This graph from the UK shows that old people must get booster shots! Look at the 80+ group.

https://www.health-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/files/publications/health/doh-vaccination-status-weeks-03-06.pdf

In Maine, our governor has tested positive for Covid-but she is vaccinated and boosted. So how did she get it?

From the BDN:

Neither she nor many other prominent Maine politicians have been wearing masks in public in recent weeks after federal health officials relaxed guidelines in February.

Any questions about why I absolutely refuse to take off my mask, now?

It also stands to reason that as a larger percentage of the gen pop are vaccinated and there are fewer unvaxxed around, the number of new cases and deaths will trend in the vaxxed direction. If and when we hit 100% vaxxed, the point becomes moot.

Let's look at the overall trends though, new cases and deaths are trending mostly downward as predicted due to the vax. That's a good thang.

Anyone that laments the loss of an elderly or infirm vaxxed relative to covid but still argues against masking and mandates has absolutely no standing to grieve.

Even your t-cell response greatly benefits from having had a booster, I believe. Younger people seem to do just fine without a booster, but unboosted older people seem to be in trouble.

The main thing for ANY older or immune compromised person is to have a supply of tests at home, test every time you feel the least bit sick, and IMMEDIATELY go get paxlovid or the latest monoclonal if you test positive. If you're 75 and just got your fourth booster, doesn't matter, still immediately go get paxlovid or monoclonal if you pop positive. (Also, research and verify the monoclonal they're offering is the correct one; they offered Regenron to my father during the Omicron surge, and Regenron doesn't work on Omicron).