I realized something rather shocking recently: almost every person currently dying in the United States from covid-19 decided not to get vaccinated. There are still over 500 people dying each day of covid-19 in the US. We are talking thousands of people each week dying preventable deaths. Why is this fact not being publicized?
Here is some data on breakthrough deaths from the US CDC website:
- Total breakthrough deaths as of April 26, 2021: 132
- Total breakthrough deaths as of May 10, 2021: 223
As we can see, for the two week period from April 26 to May 10 there were just 91 breakthrough deaths recorded. Total US deaths from covid-19 during that period were around 700 per day, for approximately 9,800 deaths. Just 91 out of 9,800 deaths were fully vaccinated. That’s amazing. 9,700 of those deaths could have been prevented if the person had been vaccinated. The CDC website does mention that the breakthroughs are probably being undercounted, so maybe the vaccine effectiveness isn’t quite as high as the 99% that these numbers show, but it is certainly up there. (In fact Pfizer claims 97% and numerous studies have shown very high effectiveness.)
It should also be noted that 93% of those who recently died from covid-19 were 50+ years of age, so they have had access to vaccine for quite a while now. They actually decided not to get vaccinated and most likely died as a result of their decision.
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