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Over 180,000 US residents have died of covid since Biden’s December 16th threat of “a winter of severe illness and death — if you’re unvaccinated…”

According to CDC data, 41% of January covid deaths were among fully vaccinated people

  • YuriMihalkov [comrade/them,any]
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    2 years ago

    the percentage of breakthrough deaths went from 3.1% in March 2021 to 21% in September 2021 to 46% this March

    most of the people who got a "full" regimen of two shots got them almost a year ago in Spring-Summer of 2021, and immunity from either infection or vaccination tapers off after between three to six months

    basically, the vaccine is highly effective against the virus it was designed for, but it wears off just like natural immunity, and is significantly less effective against newer variants like Delta and Omicron

      • RowPin [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        "Fully vaccinated" is considered 2 shots by the CDC, 3 shots is fully vaccinated + booster. I'd also hazard a guess that the reason vaccinated deaths are proportionately increasing among death is because everyone who was unvaccinated has already died.

      • silent_water [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        in addition to the other response, we're coming in the 3-6 month range on the boosters where their effectiveness wanes and I doubt the government will pay for 4th or 5th shots.