For the first time, the majority of people dying from COVID in America have been vaccinated.
"We can no longer say this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated," Kaiser Family Foundation Vice President Cynthia Cox, who conducted the analysis, toldPeople who had been vaccinated or boosted made up 58% of COVID-19 deaths in August, the analysis showed.
The case for the effectiveness of vaccines and boosters versus skipping the shots remains strong. People age 6 months and older who are unvaccinated are six times more likely to die of COVID-19, compared to those who got the primary series of shots, thereported. Survival rates were even better with additional booster shots, particularly among older people.
"Despite these high exposure numbers, there is still substantial population susceptibility to infection with an Omicron variant," the authors wrote.
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