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