Nearly all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. now are in people who weren’t vaccinated, a staggering demonstration of how effective the shots have been and an indication that deaths per day — now down to under 300 — could be practically zero if everyone eligible got the vaccine.
An Associated Press analysis of available government data from May shows that “breakthrough” infections in fully vaccinated people accounted for fewer than 1,200 of more than 853,000 COVID-19 hospitalizations. That’s about 0.1%.
And only about 150 of the more than 18,000 COVID-19 deaths in May were in fully vaccinated people. That translates to about 0.8%, or five deaths per day on average.
The AP analyzed figures provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC itself has not estimated what percentage of hospitalizations and deaths are in fully vaccinated people, citing limitations in the data.
Among them: Only about 45 states report breakthrough infections, and some are more aggressive than others in looking for such cases. So the data probably understates such infections, CDC officials said.
Still, the overall trend that emerges from the data echoes what many health care authorities are seeing around the country and what top experts are saying.
Earlier this month, Andy Slavitt, a former adviser to the Biden administration on COVID-19, suggested that 98% to 99% of the Americans dying of the coronavirus are unvaccinated.
And CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said on Tuesday that the vaccine is so effective that "nearly every death, especially among adults, due to COVID-19, is, at this point, entirely preventable.” She called such deaths “particularly tragic.”
Deaths in the U.S. have plummeted from a peak of more than 3,400 day on average in mid-January, one month into the vaccination drive.
About 63% of all vaccine-eligible Americans — those 12 and older — have received at least one dose, and 53% are fully vaccinated, according to the CDC. While vaccine remains scarce in much of the world, the U.S. supply is so abundant and demand has slumped so dramatically that shots sit unused.
Ross Bagne, a 68-year-old small-business owner in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was eligible for the vaccine in early February but didn't get it. He died June 4, infected and unvaccinated, after spending more than three weeks in the hospital, his lungs filling with fluid. He was unable to swallow because of a stroke.
“He never went out, so he didn’t think he would catch it,” said his grieving sister, Karen McKnight. She wondered: “Why take the risk of not getting vaccinated?”
The preventable deaths will continue, experts predict, with unvaccinated pockets of the nation experiencing outbreaks in the fall and winter. Ali Mokdad, a professor of health metrics sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, said modeling suggests the nation will hit 1,000 deaths per day again next year.
In Arkansas, which has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, with only about 33% of the population fully protected, cases, hospitalizations and deaths are rising.
“It is sad to see someone go to the hospital or die when it can be prevented," Gov. Asa Hutchinson tweeted as he urged people to get their shots.
In Seattle's King County, the public health department found only three deaths during a recent 60-day period in people who were fully vaccinated. The rest, some 95% of 62 deaths, had had no vaccine or just one shot.
“Those are all somebody’s parents, grandparents, siblings and friends,” said Dr. Mark Del Beccaro, who helps lead a vaccination outreach program in King County. “It’s still a lot of deaths, and they’re preventable deaths.”
In the St. Louis area, more than 90% of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 have not been vaccinated, said Dr. Alex Garza, a hospital administrator who directs a metropolitan-area task force on the outbreak.
“The majority of them express some regret for not being vaccinated,” Garza said. “That’s a pretty common refrain that we’re hearing from patients with COVID.”
The stories of unvaccinated people dying may convince some people they should get the shots, but young adults — the group least likely to be vaccinated — may be motivated more by a desire to protect their loved ones, said David Michaels, an epidemiologist at George Washington University's school of public health in the nation's capital.
Others need paid time off to get the shots and deal with any side effects, Michaels said.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration this month began requiring health care employers, including hospitals and nursing homes, to provide such time off. But Michaels, who headed OSHA under President Barack Obama, said the agency should have gone further and applied the rule to meat and poultry plants and other food operations as well as other places with workers at risk.
Bagne, who lived alone, ran a business helping people incorporate their companies in Wyoming for the tax advantages. He was winding down the business, planning to retire, when he got sick, emailing his sister in April about an illness that had left him dizzy and disoriented.
“Whatever it was. That bug took a LOT out of me,” he wrote.
As his health deteriorated, a neighbor finally persuaded him to go to the hospital.
“Why was the messaging in his state so unclear that he didn’t understand the importance of the vaccine? He was a very bright guy," his sister said. “I wish he’d gotten the vaccine, and I’m sad he didn’t understand how it could prevent him from getting COVID."
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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
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Ingat, virus Covid-19 kebanyakkannya hanya bunuh orang2 dengan sistem immune yang lemah spt orang2 tua berpenyakit kencing manis atau darah tinggi, ... dan kebanyakkan orang2 dengan sistem immune kuat spt orang2 muda dan/atau sihat, yang dijangkiti virus Covid adalah asymptomatic(= tiada simptom2).
Kebanyakkan negeri2 di Amerika Syarikat tidak mengamalkan FMCO/PKPD/Total Lockdown dan tiada pakai contact-tracing app sejak pandemik ini bermula pada awal tahun 2020 kerana Perlembagaan AS mengutamakan kebebasan Rakyat dan hadkan kuasa kerajaan = tiap2 hari lebih kurang seramai 2,000 orang AS dibunuh oleh virus Covid = lk 700,000 orang AS sudah mati Covid daripada 34 juta orang yang dijangkiti = 2% kadar kematian yang agak tinggi.
....... Ertinya, selepas lebih setahun pandemik di AS, sekarang hanya tinggal saki baki orang2 dengan sistem immune lemah yang belum dibunuh oleh virus Covid = sekarang tiap2 hari, "hanya" lk 300 orang AS mati Covid pada bulan Jun 2021 dan angka ini masih menurun. .......
Di Sweden(populasi 10 juta orang), yang juga tidak mengamalkan FMCO/PKPD/Total Lockdown dan tiada pakai contact-tracing app, pun sama pengalaman nya, iaitu dari tiap2 hari lk 50 orang mati Covid kepada sekarang tiap2 hari <5 orang mati Covid pada bulan Jun 2021. .......
Berbanding dengan Malaysia yang mengamalkan FMCO/PKPD/Total Lockdown dan pakai contact-tracing app, kadar kematian Covid telah meningkat dari 0.4% sebelum Mei 2021 ke 0.7% untuk bulan Jun 2021.
....... Mungkin salah satu sebab kadar kematian sudah naik ialah keadaan di Pusat Kuarantin dan Hospital menambah faktor stress/tekanan-jiwa kepada orang2 yang dijangkiti virus Covid.
Sebaliknya, sistem kerajaan komunis CCP Cina yang sering menindas kebebasan Rakyat telah boleh mengamalkan Total Lockdown yang ketat, Kuarantin dan memaksa semua penduduk/orang memakai contact-tracing app, buat test Covid, dan nampaknya ia sudah berjaya menghentikan kematian dan kerebakan Covid selepas Mei 2020. Apa akan terjadi kalau komunis CCP Cina buka semula/longgarkan pergerakan penduduk2 dan negara nya.? Kerajaan Malaysia nak ikut cara demokratik AS yang bebas atau cara komunis CCP Cina yang menindas.?
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P S - Pada pendapat saya, menjaga kesihatan badan dan minda untuk mengekalkan sistem immune(ketahanan) yang kuat adalah terpenting untuk kita menghadapi pandemik Covid ataupun virus Influenza/selsema. Ini adalah tanggungjawab kita sendiri, bukan tanggungjawab kerajaan atau keluarga/jiran/kawan/dll.
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