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Weekly confirmed COVID-19 deaths Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by US state. [1]The CDC publishes official numbers of COVID-19 cases in the United States. The CDC estimates that, between February 2020 and September 2021, only 1 in 1.3 COVID-19 deaths were attributed to COVID-19. [2]
According to the Children's Hospital Association CEO, it was a "perfect storm threatening national pediatric hospital capacity." [ 64 ] High vaccination rates among the 65-plus age group were expected to protect hospitals from becoming overwhelmed like they were the previous winter.
Studies have shown them to be highly protective against severe illness, hospitalization, and death. In comparison with fully vaccinated people, the CDC found that those who were unvaccinated were from 5 to nearly 30 times more likely to become either infected or hospitalized.
In other words, Americans range in vulnerability from the unvaccinated and never infected to the vaccinated, previously infected and fully boosted, with infinite gradations of protection in between.
"I haven't had anyone that's been fully vaccinated become critically ill," one doctor said.
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 ...
The COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the United States is an ongoing mass immunization campaign for the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first granted emergency use authorization to the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine on December 10, 2020, [7] and mass vaccinations began four days later.
Dr. Shereef Elnahal, University Hospital CEO, former NJDOH Commissioner joins the Yahoo Finance Live panel with the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic.