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Deaths are down because we vaccinated all the old people who were dying in the first waves

• shreddit 5y ago
  Why would you vaccinate a dead person?
  • RC_ITR 5y ago
    We vaccinated all the old people, who were the population most at risk for death the first time.
  • bregma 5y ago
    They're less likely to refuse on political grounds.
• monocasa 5y ago
  Deaths are climbing again in the US and are expected to be above where they were the same time last year within a couple weeks.
  • veemjeem 5y ago
    It's still lower than the peak of 3300 (7-day average) during the winter season, and that's when we had 250k cases daily. We're almost at 150k daily cases, but with only 1k daily deaths. At least based purely on numbers, the CFR is lower. The CFR is lower because most of the infections are happening in younger people.