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99% of COVID deaths are now of unvaccinated people, experts say - CNET

99% of COVID deaths are now of unvaccinated people, experts say - CNET

99% of COVID deaths are now of unvaccinated people, experts say - CNET
Jul 22, 2021 1 min, 46 secs

The vast majority of people being hospitalized with COVID and dying from the disease haven't been fully vaccinated, according to public health officials.

(Vaccines became available to adults in the state at the end of March. At-risk people were able to get them sooner.) In southern Missouri, an area that leads the nation as a delta variant hot spot, "almost every COVID-19 patient in Springfield's hospitals is unvaccinated," the Atlantic reported.

The dozen or so that were vaccinated, according to the report, were elderly or immunocompromised -- people for whom studies have shown vaccines are likely not as effective. .

The three COVID vaccines available in the US -- Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson -- have proven efficacy against all variants of the coronavirus currently circulating, including delta.

Anthony Fauci, said that "breakthrough cases," or people who test positive for COVID after getting vaccinated, are to be expected, but that vaccinated people who get infected "generally have either no symptoms, or very mild symptoms as opposed to going on and developing significant disease.".

One reason many people have chosen not to get vaccinated is the newness of the coronavirus vaccines, or the fact that the vaccines have emergency use authorization from the FDA as opposed to regular authorization.

The extremely rare blood clotting disorder associated with Johnson & Johnson's vaccine prompted some health experts to advise women under age 50 (the group that was affected in most cases) to get a Pfizer or Moderna shot instead if one is available, due to the ACIP's weighing of benefits and risks for that population.

Another reason some people have chosen not to get vaccinated is the misinformation about the vaccines that continues to circulate online.

Amid a flurry of conflicting opinions about vaccines and COVID, though, one hard fact doesn't change: the number of unvaccinated individuals getting sick or dying from COVID-19

At the press briefing Friday, Jeff Zients, head of the White House COVID-19 task force, said that the five states with the highest number of COVID cases -- Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri and Nevada -- had more people getting newly vaccinated than the national average

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