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5/100k deaths among unvaccinated can’t possibly be right, can it? There have been 790k Covid deaths so far in the US out of a population of 330 million, which

• throwawayboise 5y ago
  Rates will change as the weakest die off. We may already be though the worst of it.
• dd36 5y ago
  And that’s not including the recent studies of high death rates for those with severe covid within a year.
  • mwint 5y ago
    Link? My initial impression is that this would be confounded by people who have severe covid also tending to be old or otherwise sickly, unless they found a way to control for that.
    • dd36 5y ago
      https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/12/severe-covid-tied-high-risk-death-mostly-other-causes-within-year https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/12/severe-c...
• ccn0p 5y ago
  A big chunk of US deaths were elderly in nursing homes when officials made uninformed decisions to put infected individuals back into the homes (when we knew a lot less about the virus) and it ripped through. Very sad, but that's where we get a big portion of that 790k. Given that we've learned a lot, tactics and strategies have evolved, and therapeutics are getting better, death rate should continue to go down. That's why many places in the US feel somewhat back to normal.