A look at how the U.S. has reached this grim new milestone
A white flag memorial installed last month outside Griffith Observatory honoring Los Angeles County residents who have died from COVID-19. Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images At least 800,000 Americans have now died from COVID-19 as the U.S. heads into its second pandemic winter still under siege from the Delta variant, and facing the threat of a wave of additional cases from the likely far more transmissible new Omicron variant.
Since vaccines first became available a year ago, older Americans have been vaccinated at a much higher rate than younger age groups and yet the brutal toll on them has persisted. The share of younger people among all virus deaths in the United States increased this year, but, in the last two months, the portion of older people has risen once again, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. …[M]any older people who are unvaccinated have died of the virus.
During the month of September amid the last peak of the Delta wave, CDC data showed that on average, people who were unvaccinated were 14 times more likely to die from COVID-19 as people who were fully vaccinated. 163,000 deaths may have been preventable According to researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation, 163,000 of America’s COVID deaths from the beginning of June through the end of November would have been prevented if those adults who died had gotten vaccinated. The analysis is based on the fact that COVID vaccines, which a recent CDC study found have been between 91 and 94 percent effective at preventing death from COVID-19, have been widely available to all American adults since early May.
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