With surprising bluntness, the White House warned the unvaccinated of looming danger.
“For the unvaccinated,” he said in teleconference, “you’re looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm.”
More to Zients’s point, the virus has always been far more dangerous for older Americans. For those who remain unvaccinated, the difference is staggering. Vaccination doesn’t completely eliminate the risk of death, but it lowers it significantly. An unvaccinated person age 50 to 65 was about as likely to die from the virus in mid-October as a vaccinated person in the over-80 group that has been ravaged by the virus.
These data exclude counties for which there is no 2020 vote data or no vaccination data . But the decline is clear.
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