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“ It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated.” Could someone please put a number on “vast majority”? I keep hearing this adage b
by truted2 5y ago
“ It has killed more than 865,000 Americans, the vast majority unvaccinated.”
Could someone please put a number on “vast majority”? I keep hearing this adage but a majority is 51% and there’s a big range between 51 and 100% that a word like “vast” doesn’t precisely capture..
- acdha 5y agoYou'd have to adjust for the period of time where vaccination wasn't available but currently the difference is best characterized as vast — the weekly rate is 10 per 100k versus 0.71 for fully vaccinated without a booster and 0.10 for boosted individuals: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-covid-19-deaths-by-vaccination-status?country=~All+ages https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/united-states-rates-of-co...
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoI would guess something like 5-25%, but it's a subjective term, so who knows. Table 1 on page 3 has unvaccinated covid deaths at ~20% of the total. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7104e2-h.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/pdfs/mm7104e2-h.pdf